Archive for October, 2019

Goodbye, Flash

“The end of an era”… that’s the title Microsoft used to announce it will stop supporting Flash in their web browsers. Flash is disabled by default in Chrome (starting in version 76), Microsoft Edge, and FireFox 69. Soon, we’ll also move on from Flash in indexing for Google Search. Flash was the answer to the […]

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Updating the user agent of Googlebot

Googlebot uses a Chrome-based browser to render webpages, as we announced at Google I/O earlier this year. As part of this, in December 2019 we’ll update Googlebot’s user agent strings to reflect the new browser version, and periodically update the version numbers to match Chrome updates in Googlebot. See Google crawlers (user agents) and Make […]

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