Google has launched two new webmaster tool features in its all new Labs section to help website owners and webmasters, with broader viewing of their web pages. The release of features ‘Fetch as GoogleBot’ and ‘Malware Details’ have been purposely done in the Lab section to get user feedbacks, before making it an official release.
Both the features serve individual purpose and help in viewing web pages from perception of a Google spider or bot.

Fetch as GoogleBot is designed to allow users to view their web pages through the perception of a GoogleBot. In simple words, one can see the web pages through the eyes of a web page crawler when seeing a page on a particular domain.
The feature is easy to use, you just have to type the name of whatever page you want to view, if its home page you need not type anything, then click on the button ‘Fetch’. Next step, hit the button ‘Success’ and get the view of the page through a Googlebot’s eye. 

Fetch as GoogleBot Feature

New Feature at Google Webmaster tools: Fetch As GoogleBot

This ‘Fetch’ feature works well to assists webmaster in seeing if there is any bug on the web pages of their website.

The second feature released by Google in Google Webmaster Tool’s Lab section is Malware Details. This extensively important feature makes work easier for webmasters, who have to go through monotonous process of detecting and cleaning a website infected with malware.

New Feature at Google Webmaster Tools: Malware Details

Malware Details Feature at Google Webmaster Tools

Earlier, Webmasters had to rely on Google SERPS to see if the website bears a “This site may harm your computer” notification. Now, the Malware Details are just available under this very new section and as soon as it is detected, you can take corrective measure to get rid of any thing malicious on the server.

Overall, we feel that the two new features are good, although there are a handful of free Website Crawler Simulators as well as Malware Detecting tools available online, but when it comes right from the labs of Google, it surely can’t be overlooked!

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