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Google-CWS

Google
Directory statusActive
Last updatedSep 20, 2026

Overview

Google-CWS is a search crawler from Google used for search indexing, URL discovery, page rendering, result freshness; it appears in server logs as .

Profile

Operator
Google
Classification
Fetcher
Verification
Verified
Last verified
Aug 7, 2026
Common Use
Fetching URLs supplied by Chrome Web Store developers in extension and theme metadata.
Company
Google
Confidence
High
Family
Google
Identity Type
official-documented
Kind
fetcher
Purpose
extension-metadata-url-fetching
Respects Robots
depends