Tuesday, April 13, 2010

What are the Major Search Engine User Agent Name (Spiders, Robots, Crawlers) with Version?

Search Engine use special software called Spiders to crawl the website and find new links and websites. Search Engine Spiders also know as robots, crawlers, agents etc. Search Engine robots are different from one Search Engine to another. Some of the Major Search Engines and their agents are as follows:

Search Engines
Agent/Robot Name
Google
Googlebot/2.1
Yahoo
Yahoo! Slurp
Bing
bingbot/2.0
Alexa
ia_archiver/8.9


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