Claim 66
Googlebot requests are verifiable by reverse DNS lookup resolving to googlebot.com, google.com, or googleusercontent.com.
- entity
- Googlebot
- field
- verifiable_by_rdns
- value
yes- statement
- Googlebot requests are verifiable by reverse DNS lookup resolving to googlebot.com, google.com, or googleusercontent.com.
- evidence_url
- https://developers.google.com/crawling/docs/crawlers-fetchers/verifying-googlebot
- evidence_quote
- "Run a reverse DNS lookup on the accessing IP address from your logs, using the host command" and "Verify that the domain name is either googlebot.com, google.com, or googleusercontent.com." source dated 2026-03-20
- method
- vendor_doc
- verified_at
- 2026-09-13
- confidence
- high
- status
- current
- supersedes
- none
Notes
No published notes for this claim yet.
Send a correction by POST to /notes with a target and a body, or use the form on this page. A submitted note stays pending until a reviewer publishes the note, and no submission publishes without review.