{"id":11874,"date":"2026-07-18T14:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T06:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/?p=11874"},"modified":"2026-07-18T14:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T06:29:10","slug":"google-fixes-google-inspectiontool-user-agent-string-in-help-doc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/?p=11874","title":{"rendered":"Google Fixes Google-InspectionTool User Agent String In Help Doc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p> <div> <p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.seroundtable.com\/google-spider-wEfvlqIH.jpg\" style=\"max-width:100%\" alt=\"Google Spider\" title=\"Google Fixes Google-InspectionTool User Agent String In Help Doc\u63d2\u56fe\" \/><\/p> <p>Google has updated its Google crawlers help documentation to fix a typo under the Google-InspectionTool user agent string. In short, Google had a semicolon as part of the Google-InspectionTool user agent string and it should not have been there, so Google removed the semicolon.<\/p> <p>Here is the old version:<\/p> <p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.seroundtable.com\/old-googlebot-url-inspection-tool-sW8B347v.png\" style=\"max-width:100%\" alt=\"Old Googlebot Url Inspection Tool\" title=\"Google Fixes Google-InspectionTool User Agent String In Help Doc\u63d2\u56fe1\" \/><\/p> <p>Here is the updated version:<\/p> <p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.seroundtable.com\/new-googlebot-url-inspection-tool-qeXoITvY.png\" style=\"max-width:100%\" alt=\"New Googlebot Url Inspection Tool\" title=\"Google Fixes Google-InspectionTool User Agent String In Help Doc\u63d2\u56fe2\" \/><\/p> <p>So if you hard coded this user agent string into your software, you should remove the semicolon.<\/p> <p>Google wrote, &#8220;The user agent string for Google-InspectionTool mistakenly included a semicolon, which didn&#8217;t match the actual user agent string in production. This is now corrected in our documentation.&#8221;<\/p> <p>Forum discussion at X.<\/p> <\/p><\/div> <p>#Google #Fixes #GoogleInspectionTool #User #Agent #String #Doc1784356150<\/p> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has updated its Google crawlers help documentation to fix a typo under the Google-InspectionTool user agent string. In short, Google had a semicolon as part of the Google-InspectionTool user agent string and it should not have been there, so Google removed the semicolon. Here is the old version: Here is the updated version: So [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[1563,6323,8185,75,46964,46956,5011],"class_list":["post-11874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-careers","tag-agent","tag-doc","tag-fixes","tag-google","tag-googleinspectiontool","tag-string","tag-user"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/longzhuplatform.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}