Google Web Preview
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What is Google Web Preview?
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Google Web Preview Crawler, used to fetch pages for previews in Google Applications
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Did you find Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.3.4; generic) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; Google Web Preview) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/537.36 in your logs?
If you've seen Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.3.4; generic) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; Google Web Preview) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/537.36 in your website logs, it indicates that Google Web Preview 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 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; Google Web Preview) Chrome/27.0.1453 Safari/537.36 in your logs?
If you've seen Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; Google Web Preview) Chrome/27.0.1453 Safari/537.36 in your website logs, it indicates that Google Web Preview 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 Web Preview?
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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Get Automated Bot ManagementHow Do I Block Google Web Preview?
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 Web PreviewShould match instances of this botrobots.txt
# robots.txt # This should block Google Web Preview User-agent: Google Web Preview Disallow: /
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