"Google added a new crawler, robot, to its list of user-triggered fetchers in the Google crawlers documentation. This specific bot is named Google Messages and it is a fetcher "used to generate link previews for URLs sent in chat messages," Google wrote."
"The User-Agent in HTTP requests is "GoogleMessages" and it is a fetcher and "is used to generate link previews for URLs sent in chat messages.""
"Google said they added it to "To help site owners identify traffic from Google Messages when it generates link previews for URLs sent in chat messages.""
Google added a new user-triggered fetcher to its crawlers list named Google Messages. The fetcher is used to generate link previews for URLs sent in chat messages. The User-Agent string for HTTP requests from this fetcher is "GoogleMessages." The fetcher is explicitly described as used to generate link previews for URLs sent in chat messages. Google stated the addition helps site owners identify traffic from Google Messages when it generates link previews. The change appears in Google crawlers documentation and was noted in forum discussion on X.
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