Coffee Outside The Google Office

Microsoft Bing has a new feature over the past couple of weeks that let’s you add or remove a language tab to the search bar. The tab may show up for you if there are two or more popular languages in your region and you can decide to show or remove the language tab.

Google has now added new details that explain the three categories its Google crawlers fall into, they include Googlebot, special-case crawlers and user-triggered fetchers. In addition, Google now lists a JSON formatted file containing the list of IP addresses each of these different crawler types use. Types of Google crawlers. At the top of this Googlebot page, Google listed these three crawler types: Googlebot – The main crawler for Google’s search products. Google says this crawler always respects robots.txt rules. Special-case crawlers – Crawlers that perform […]

Google has posted that the Google Merchant Center feeds have issues. The notice is posted here and reads, “We’re investigating reports of an issue with Feeds. We will provide more information shortly.”