Some folks are seeing a new useragent in their log files named google-speakr. The for that useragent, at least during accessing the sites is 66.249.81.186 which resolves to Google. SEOs and webmasters are asking if this is some sort of Google Assistant or Home crawler or something else?
Google has not responded about questions about this, but here are the tweets from the community on this:
Interesting hit in the logfile. useragent "google-speakr" IP was "66.249.81.186" which resolves to https://t.co/RnpYd0FtUk.
— Valentin Pletzer (@VorticonCmdr) January 28, 2019
might be an indicator which contents are requested on Google Home#seo #google #voice@JohnMu is this a reasonable assumption?
A friend of mine spotted a Googlebot Speakr in his logs ⬇️⬇️⬇️
— Gianluca Fiorelli (@gfiorelli1) January 30, 2019
Did any of you see it? pic.twitter.com/dMZXsQpJDS
I guess it might make sense for Google to do this but I have no clue what would be going on with this useragent to be honest.
Update: More details on this Useragent from Danny Sullivan of Google:
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
No
— 🍌 John 🍌 (@JohnMu) February 4, 2019
