Agent directory / Googlebot
Googlebot
Observed live across sites Botfall meters — measured, not copied from docs
Last seen1 hour ago
First seen60 days ago
Fetches · 24h8
Fetches · 30d412
Sites seen on3
Identity verified 46%
415 requests claimed this identity from addresses outside Google's published ranges — impersonation, not this agent.
Networks observed CLOUDFLARE - Cloudflare, Inc. · CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc. · DIGITALOCEAN-ASN - DigitalOcean, LLC · EMCYBER-AS-IN - Em-cyberspace Services Private Limited · EUGameHost-LTD EUGAMEHOST LTD · GOLDENNET Rabchuk Valentyna Viktorivna
| Operator | |
| Purpose | Search indexing |
| Identifies as | User-agent substring: googlebot |
| Notes | Also feeds AI Overviews/Gemini grounding — no separate UA exists for that (see Google-Extended). |
What the operator publishes
Their documentation, not our measurements — re-checked automatically every day.
| Verify identity by | Published IP ranges + reverse DNS — a user-agent alone proves nothing; anyone can send this string. |
| Published IP ranges | https://developers.google.com/static/search/apis/ipranges/googlebot.json — 317 prefixes listed link checked 2026-09-30 |
| Reverse-DNS suffixes | googlebot.comgoogle.com |
| robots.txt stance | Operator documents that it honors robots.txt |
| Operator documentation | https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/overview-google-crawlers link checked 2026-09-30 |
Provenance
What establishes this record, and when it was last checked — no speculative entries.
- Observed in live storefront telemetry (classifier lineage)checked 2026-07-30
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