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Google Web Snippet

Name: Google Web Snippet
Author: Google

GoodBotVerifiedBOT

This user agent belongs to Google Web Snippet. Google Inc developed this Bot. This Bot run on Linux. Operated by Google.

Operator website ↗

GoodBot

Assessment

Page Preview

What is Google Web Snippet?

Google Web Snippet is a web crawler operated by Google. This user agent belongs to Google Web Snippet. Google Inc developed this Bot. This Bot run on Linux.

Helpful — Verified, safe crawler. Respects robots.txt and provides operator documentation.

Identification

Bot name

Google Web Snippet

Operator

Google

Why it crawls your site

Google Web Snippet crawls websites to generate link previews and thumbnails for shared URLs. It is operated by Google as part of their link preview infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

IP ranges

Requests from Google Web Snippet originate from these published ranges. For strict verification, match the source IP against this list in addition to checking the user-agent and reverse-DNS.

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Block or allow Google Web Snippet

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for Google-PageRenderer in your robots.txt file. You can also block at the server level using your web server configuration or CDN firewall rules to filter requests matching the user-agent string.

# Block Google Web Snippet from crawling your entire site
User-agent: Google-PageRenderer
Disallow: /

# Allow Google Web Snippet full access
User-agent: Google-PageRenderer
Allow: /

Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows Google-PageRenderer. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Google's documentation.