Google is Revealing a new User Agent

Danny Sullivan, Google’s public search liaison, tweeted about a new user agnet that is used by Google to fetch information for its Google Go App. This tweet was a reply to Barry Schwartz’s question about a newly identified useragent called google-speakr.

That's an useragent used when Google Go fetches a page to make sure it has the most up-to-date information before it translates it to read aloud. We'll see about adding documentation. More info here: https://t.co/Nohz2YTaWY

— Danny Sullivan (@dannysullivan) February 4, 2019

Google use this special spider to fetch up-to-date information from websites before using it via the read aloud technology.

google-speakr is not documented yet but Sullivan promised it will be soon added to the documentation.