moderate change What the guidance says has shifted
Google changed the affected-products lists for the Googlebot and Googlebot Image crawlers, replacing "Google Video" with "Video mode".
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This clarifies that the crawler user agents affect a feature called Video mode rather than a separate Google Video product. Site owners who serve video content may want to review their robots.txt directives, as the documentation now uses the current name for this affected area.
Generated by AI from the change below: a guide to what it could mean, not a certainty.
Word for word
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In “Googlebot”
Affected products | Crawling preferences addressed to the Googlebot user agent affect Google Search (including Discover and all Google Search features), as well as other products such as Google Images, [removed: Google ]Video[added: mode], Google News, and Discover.
In “Googlebot Image”
Affected products | Crawling preferences addressed to the Googlebot-Image user agent affect Google Images, Discover, [removed: Google ]Video[added: mode], and all features in Google Search where images, logos, and favicons are presented.
On Google's page
The "before" is the same page with the earlier wording put back.
Changed between our checks at and (UK time)Google's “last updated” date moved from 14 Jul 2026 to 15 Oct 2026Posted on X Link to this change