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Google-Read-Aloud
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A Google fetcher for read-aloud and assistant features. It opens your page so the text can be spoken back.
When Google-Read-Aloud shows up in your logs
A Google assistant feature is reading your page out loud to someone.
User-triggered fetches, when an assistant opens a page to answer a person directly.
Allow or block it in robots.txt
A robots.txt entry is a request. Well-behaved crawlers honor it; it is not an enforcement mechanism.
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