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Google Corrects Semicolon Error in Google-InspectionTool User Agent Documentation

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Google removed an erroneous semicolon from its Google-InspectionTool user agent string documentation that didn't match the actual production value.

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SERoundtable reports that Google has corrected its crawler documentation to remove a semicolon that mistakenly appeared in the Google-InspectionTool user agent string. The character was never present in the actual production user agent, so those who hardcoded the string into their software should update their implementations accordingly.

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