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    {
      "field": "reads_llms_txt",
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    {
      "field": "respects_robots_txt",
      "value_a": "yes",
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      "same": true
    },
    {
      "field": "separate_search_and_training_tokens",
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      "field": "user_agent_string_full",
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      "field": "fallback_to_googlebot_rules",
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    },
    {
      "field": "observed_paths_fetched",
      "statement_a": "Applebot made 6 requests to Rattlesnakes By Mail between 2026-09-13T20:00Z and 2026-09-15T09:00Z, to 2 distinct paths, /robots.txt and the home page. Applebot's 6 requests to Rattlesnakes By Mail run from 2026-09-14T12:22:23Z to 2026-09-14T12:59:26Z and alternate the two paths three times.",
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      "claim_id_b": null
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    {
      "field": "observed_verified_request_ratio_census",
      "statement_a": null,
      "statement_b": "Googlebot requests to Rattlesnakes By Mail matched Google's published IP ranges on 108 of 109 requests between 2026-09-13T20:00Z and 2026-09-15T09:00Z. Googlebot's first request to Rattlesnakes By Mail in that window was /robots.txt at 2026-09-14T11:53:00Z.",
      "claim_id_a": null,
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    {
      "field": "purpose_documented",
      "statement_a": "Applebot crawls content for Apple search results and for training Apple foundation models.",
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    {
      "field": "reads_llms_txt",
      "statement_a": "Apple does not publish whether Applebot reads llms.txt files.",
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    },
    {
      "field": "separate_search_and_training_tokens",
      "statement_a": "Apple uses one crawler token, Applebot, for search crawling and for training crawling, and a second robots.txt token, Applebot-Extended, that opts content out of training use.",
      "statement_b": "Google separates Search crawling under the Googlebot token from Gemini training under the Google-Extended token.",
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    },
    {
      "field": "user_agent_string_full",
      "statement_a": "Applebot sends the desktop user agent string Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.4 Safari/605.1.15 (Applebot/0.1; +http://www.apple.com/go/applebot).",
      "statement_b": "Googlebot sends the user agent string Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html).",
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    "https://developers.google.com/crawling/docs/crawlers-fetchers/verifying-googlebot",
    "https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2019/07/a-note-on-unsupported-rules-in-robotstxt",
    "https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/ai-features",
    "https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/google-common-crawlers",
    "https://developers.google.com/search/docs/fundamentals/ai-optimization-guide",
    "https://developers.google.com/static/crawling/ipranges/common-crawlers.json",
    "https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/observed/applebot",
    "https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/observed/googlebot",
    "https://search.developer.apple.com/applebot.json",
    "https://support.apple.com/en-us/119829"
  ]
}