GoogleBot
GoodBotVerifiedBOTGooglebot is the search engine crawler for Google Search. Operated by Google.
What is GoogleBot?
GoogleBot is a web crawler operated by Google. Googlebot is the search engine crawler for Google Search. As a search engine crawler, it systematically indexes web pages to build and maintain search engine results.
Identification
Googlebot/Why it crawls your site
GoogleBot crawls websites to index web pages and build search engine results. It is operated by Google as part of their search engine infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.
IP ranges
Requests from GoogleBot 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.
Block or allow GoogleBot
Add a Disallow rule for Googlebot/ 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 GoogleBot from crawling your entire site User-agent: Googlebot/ Disallow: / # Allow GoogleBot full access User-agent: Googlebot/ Allow: /
Ensure your robots.txt allows Googlebot/. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Google's documentation.
Traffic & trends
Share of bot traffic observed by Cloudflare Radar.
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From the community
Recent Reddit discussion mentioning this bot.
Related bots
Other crawlers operated by Google.
Links & references
Data sources
This profile is compiled from the following sources.