Google could also be crawling the net with a brand new crawler, a brand new Googlebot, named GoogleProducer. This useragent isn’t listed on the official Google crawlers web page however possibly it’s too new to be listed but?
Hernán Marsili noticed this and requested Google about this on Twitter. He stated, “we’re seeing a variety of site visitors to writer’s websites with a brand new user-agent ‘GoogleProducer; (+http://goo.gl/7y4SX) ‘. Our WAF is at the moment blocking it, but it surely’s origin is definitely Google Proxy hosts. Is that this legit site visitors?”
That hyperlink goes to this web page that 404s throughout the Google Information Producer part.
As an FYI, Google Producer is a part of Google Information and Google Currents, I imagine. This assist doc from Google says, “You’ll use Google Currents producer to handle your points (e.g., pricing, description, and so on.) for Google Play Magazines. In case you’re collaborating in Google Currents, Producer will look acquainted to you. You’ll be able to handle each your version(s) for Google Currents and your points for Google Play Magazines by Producer. See our article on writer account setup for the steps that you must take to completely arrange your writer account and magazines for Play. If in case you have any questions on utilizing Producer for Google Currents, please see the Currents Producer Assist Middle.” Be aware, the Currents Producer Assist Middle redirects to the Google Writer Middle assist middle.
John Mueller of Google stated he’ll look into it:
I will examine – thanks for pinging.
— John Mueller is watching out for Google+ 🐀 (@JohnMu) February 1, 2023
I assume we’ll see what he says however till then, I do suspect it is a legit Googlebot crawler.
Replace: That is previous, an older one:
2011 on this thread?https://t.co/NTqpOhQYSl
— Pedro Dias (@pedrodias) February 2, 2023
Discussion board dialogue at Twitter.
