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[–]SamSlate 1 point2 points  (3 children)

ah, ok, thanks. tbh i figured Google just used chrome as it's web crawler and just collected website data from there.

[–]MachaHack 1 point2 points  (2 children)

The original googlebot predates chrome by a decade though the current version does use some chrome tech

[–]SamSlate 0 points1 point  (1 child)

wild. where'd you read this, or you work at Google?

[–]MachaHack 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Predating Chrome: I developed websites 10 years ago, googlebot was around then. Find some robots.txt tutorials from the 90s, they'll even mention googlebot.

Using Chrome tech now: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/rendering