Googlebot
The family name for Google's crawlers, chiefly the smartphone agent and the desktop agent that trails behind it.
Analogy Mental model
Two scouts from the same company, one sent to the phone shop and one to the electronics warehouse. These days the phone scout files the report that counts, and the desktop scout mostly confirms it.
In practice What you actually do
Treat the mobile rendering as canonical. Same text, same internal links, same structured data, same images. Open the page on a mid-range Android phone over a throttled connection, not on your laptop with device emulation switched on.
Where people get burned Pitfalls
Hiding a paragraph on mobile with display none to tidy the layout removes it from the version Google judges. The desktop copy you are proud of does not count for anything.
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