Google-Read-Aloud
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What is Google-Read-Aloud?
About
Google Read Aloud is designed to fetch the contents of a web page and read it through an assistive device.
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Did you find Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2272.118 Safari/537.36 (compatible; Google-Read-Aloud; +https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/overview-google-crawlers) in your logs?
If you've seen Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/41.0.2272.118 Safari/537.36 (compatible; Google-Read-Aloud; +https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/overview-google-crawlers) in your website logs, it indicates that Google-Read-Aloud has been visiting your site. This agent string is one of the known identifiers for this bot.
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Did you find Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 7.0; SM-G930V Build/NRD90M) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/59.0.3071.125 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Google-Read-Aloud; +https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/overview-google-crawlers) in your logs?
If you've seen Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 7.0; SM-G930V Build/NRD90M) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/59.0.3071.125 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Google-Read-Aloud; +https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/overview-google-crawlers) in your website logs, it indicates that Google-Read-Aloud has been visiting your site. This agent string is one of the known identifiers for this bot.
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Expected Behavior
This bot visits websites for various purposes including content analysis, data collection, or automated tasks. Its behavior may vary depending on its specific function and configuration.
Should I Block Google-Read-Aloud?
This bot is marked as compliant, meaning it generally respects robots.txt directives and follows good practices. You may choose to allow it if you want your content to be accessible to its services.
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You can block this bot or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt file. Use Spyglasses analytics to check whether it's actually following your rules.
User Agent Tokens
Google-Read-AloudShould match instances of this botrobots.txt
# robots.txt # This should block Google-Read-Aloud User-agent: Google-Read-Aloud Disallow: /
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