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technology2 years ago

Chrome's Default Mode on Android Tablets Shifts to Desktop for Premium Devices

Google is optimizing its Chrome browser for Android tablets and large-screen devices by defaulting to desktop mode. This change replaces the mobile User-Agent and aims to provide a better browsing experience on devices with at least 8 GB of RAM and a 10-inch or larger display. Website developers need to consider the differences in Web Platform APIs between Desktop Chrome and Chrome on Android. Users can still manually switch to the desktop site if desired.

technology2 years ago

Introducing Google-InspectionTool: The Latest Addition to Google's Crawler User Agents.

Google has added a new user agent named Google-InspectionTool to its list of Google crawlers. It mimics Googlebot and is used by search testing tools such as the Rich Result Test and URL inspection in Search Console. The user agent tokens for this are Google-InspectionTool and Googlebot, and it has two full user agent strings for desktop and mobile. The update is now complete, according to John Mueller from Google.