This is quite big for international SEO:
"Today Googlebot gets two new capabilities:"
"1. Geo-distributed crawling, where you may start seeing real (verifiable!) Googlebot user-agents crawling from IP addresses that appear to be coming from outside the USA."
"2. Language-dependent crawling, where Googlebot may set different Accept-Language headers in the HTTP request."
Embedded Link
Locale-aware crawling by Googlebot Today we’re taking our first small steps to…
Locale-aware crawling by Googlebot
Today we’re taking our first small steps to support crawling, indexing, and ranking of locale-adaptive pages.
What… – Pierre Far – Google+
Google+: Reshared 2 times
Google+: View post on Google+
This post was first made on the Richard Hearne Google+ profile.