If your company is developing an iPad-friendly website, being able to preview the site as it would appear can be a considerable plus. If for whatever reason you can't use an iPad to accomplish this ...

Bing announced brand new user agents for crawling web pages. The new user agents will be continually updated and as a consequence, the user agent strings will also change to reflect the latest ...

Microsoft’s Fabrice Canel confirmed this morning that the new Bingbot user-agent is now 100% live today. The new Bingbot will generally be used for crawling 100% of sites, unless something goes wrong ...

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Google has updated the Google StoreBot user agent to use a placeholder version of Chrome. So instead of it using a specific Chrome version, it now can use a dynamic version of the Chrome version. The ...

Google has announced plans today to phase out the usage of user-agent strings in its web browser Chrome. For readers unfamiliar with the term, user-agent (UA) strings are an important part of the ...

To enhance the privacy of its users and reduce the complexity of updating User-Agent strings, Google Chrome plans to move to a new system that web sites can use to identify information about their ...

In 2019, Microsoft Bing announced new Bingbot user-agent names that fit better with its evergreen Bingbot crawling and rendering service. Microsoft’s Fabrice Canel has now said that by the Fall of ...

May 25, 2010 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Want to see the iPhone or full desktop version of a web page that keeps trying to ...

A Web browser that identifies itself as a more popular browser. When a user requests a Web page, many websites check the type of browser being used in order to deliver a page specialized to render ...