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Tuesday, May 07, 2019
Googlebot is the crawler that visits web pages to include them within Google Search index. The
number one question we got from the community at events and social media was if we could make
Googlebot evergreen with the latest Chromium. Today, we are happy to announce that Googlebot now
runs the latest Chromium rendering engine (74 at the time of this post) when rendering pages for
Search. Moving forward, Googlebot will regularly update its rendering engine to ensure support for
latest web platform features.
What that means for you
Compared to the previous version, Googlebot now supports 1000+ new features, like: