Yes, you can reduce the Googlebot
crawl rate, though it's not recommended for most cases. This may have some impact
on the freshness of your results in Search. For example, it may take longer for Search
to reflect that all of your products are currently not available. On the other hand,
if Googlebot's crawling causes critical server resource issues, this is a valid
approach. We recommend setting a reminder for yourself to reset the crawl rate once
you're ready to go back in business.