Google has up to date the Google StoreBot user agent to make use of a placeholder model of Chrome. So as a substitute of it utilizing a selected Chrome model, it now can use a dynamic model of the Chrome model.
The brand new person agent reveals the desktop person agent as Chrome/W.X.Y.Z and not Chrome/79.0.3945.88
The brand new person agent reveals the cell person agent as Chrome/W.X.Y.Z and not Chrome/81.0.4044.138
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Google mentioned, “For those who hardcoded the outdated worth in your code, replace it to disregard the model.” Google added that this was “to make it simpler for the Google Procuring staff to keep up StoreBot crawler.”
Wherever you see the string Chrome/W.X.Y.Z within the person agent strings within the desk, W.X.Y.Z is definitely a placeholder that represents the model of the Chrome browser utilized by that person agent: for instance, 41.0.2272.96. This model quantity will improve over time to match the most recent Chromium launch model utilized by Googlebot. If you’re looking your logs or filtering your server for a person agent with this sample, use wildcards for the model quantity fairly than specifying an actual model quantity.
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