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When Search Bots Crawl Google's PageSpeed Tool

robot turtleA savvy webmaster was curious when he noticed that BingBot was crawling his site from Google IP addresses. Did Google acquire Bing’s crawler? Was it some sort of fake bot trying to rip off content?

The question was brought up at Stack Exchange:

John Mueller of Google responded saying both! It was BingBot crawling a URL through Google’s PageSpeed tool. John explained:

Pretty neat!

Forum discussion at Stack Exchange.

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