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Googlebot Releases New Crawl Tools

It seems Google is everywhere. It?s in the news, on the Internet, and on the lips of everyone who uses the company?s search engine and other Internet products. A leader in its field, Google is one, if not the most, popular search engine on the World Wide Web today. And when it comes to its various online products, it is no different. Webmasters and online users everywhere turn to Google?s numerous product offerings to get some of the best tools available today.

Googlebot, the crawlers that work for Google, is a good tool for a webmaster to know how to use. On Google Webmaster Central, a site provided by the Internet giant, webmasters can learn how to use these crawlers to their advantage. The site also offers several useful tools for making the indexing process a more rewarding one for site publishers. Webmasters can set the crawling speed Googlebot uses. If a webmaster feels a site can handle more visits and greater bandwidth demands, the speed can be set faster.

?If you request a changed crawl rate, this change will last for 90 days. Fox wrote. After 90 days the crawl rate returns to a setting of Normal, and the webmaster can move it back to Faster or Slower again as desired. Google can perform enhanced image search on a site. By opting in to this choice, tools like Google`s Image Labeler will make those images easier to find in search, and associate them with relevant labels. Webmasters can opt out of that service if they change their minds about it after opting in for the enhanced option,? stated Vanessa Fox who updates the Google Webmaster Central website.