Google Caffeine – An Upgraded Version of GoogleBot

Google has one of the most extensive web site indexes in the World Wide Web. Being the most popular search engine there is today, Google has established itself and set standards for other search engines to try and follow. The company has done this by using one of the most advanced indexing tools in its arsenal, the GoogleBot.

Googlebot is Google's web crawling bot al so known as spider. Crawling is the process by which Googlebot discovers new and updated pages to be added to the Google index.

Googlebot's crawl process begins with a list of webpage URLs, generated from previous crawl processes and augmented with sitemap data provided by webmasters. As Googlebot visits each of these websites it detects links (SRC and HREF) on each page and adds them to its list of pages to crawl. New sites, changes to existing sites, and dead links are noted and used to update the Google index.

Earlier versions of the GoogleBot had limited functions. It did nothing more than to search and read links and analyze codes in the Web. Google though revealed that the GoogleBot has been upgraded and can now interact with JavaScript. It went so far to declare that the Bot can understand some Java. If what they said was true, indexing and differentiating web sites with rich and quality content would be a whole lot easier.


JavaScript is not a relatively easy thing to understand. And for a bot to be able to do this is very impressive. According to Forbes, it is very hard to apply algorithms to a program and ensure that the program will continue to work ad infinitum. These difficult issues though can be eased if GoogleBot can execute JavaScript by itself.

Google Caffeine

Many analysts credit the Google Caffeine, the newest version of the company’s search index, for this vast improvement on the GoogleBot. Caffeine is a revamp of Google’s indexing infrastructure. With Google Caffeine, searching the Internet is now faster and more comprehensive. In order to do these, upgraded web crawlers would definitely be needed. Google Caffeine algorithm does seem to favor sites that associate themselves with other authority sites.


Google Caffeine’s benefits include:
• Content is available to searchers more quickly
• Google’s storage capacity has greatly increased
• Google’s flexibility in storing information about documents has greatly increased


The world is now feeling the results that this new and improved GoogleBot provide. Now, many are looking forward at what the world’s largest search Engine Company will be doing next.

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