Google’s Gary Illyes stated that the Googlebot JSON file IP handle listing is up to date inside just a few days of a brand new IP being added to the listing of IPs that Googlebot crawls from. “We acquired just a few feedback about whether or not the listing is up-to-date; the reply was at all times sure, inside a margin of some days,” Gary stated.
Gary stated this on LinkedIn the place he defined why it’s a few days. “The few days margin comes from the exporter operating solely as soon as every week, as a result of the listing adjustments very hardly ever. The exporter nonetheless runs robotically as soon as every week, however now it updates the creation time subject with the brand new time and publishes the listing even when it is unchanged. It is a no-op change for instruments that devour the listing, however hopefully prevents feedback about whether or not the listing is up-to-date,” Gary defined.
Gary additionally added that “We modified the googlebot.json exporter to publish the listing of Googlebot IP ranges and replace the creation time even when there have been no adjustments within the listing.”
I ought to be aware, the JSON file was certainly up to date every week or so in the past, with not just a few formatting adjustments but in addition Google added {“ipv4Prefix”: “34.22.85.0/27”},
Discussion board dialogue at LinkedIn.
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