The Web’s New Visitor Just Got An Identity

May 17, 2026

The Web’s New Visitor Just Got An Identity

On March 20, 2026, Google quietly added a new entry to its official list of web fetchers. Not a crawler. Not a training bot. An agent. Google-Agent is the user agent string for AI systems running on Google infrastructure that browse websites on behalf of users. When someone asks an AI assistant to research a product, fill

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Published by searchenginejournal.com