Google announced the launch of a new version of Googlebot. Now the web crawler will always work based on the latest version of Chromium, the open source browser that Chrome was built on.
At the moment, Googlebot uses Chromium version 74 instead of the long-obsolete 41st.
The updated crawler now supports over 1000 new features, including ES6, IntersectionObserver for lazy-loading and Web Components v1 APIs .
Thanks to this, Google will be able to process more content sites, which means tha...