Applebot vs GoogleOther
Applebot and GoogleOther compared on 14 documented fields, from 20 claims, last verified 2026-09-15.
| Field | Applebot | GoogleOther | Comparison |
|---|---|---|---|
| cites_sources | yes | not documented | different |
| fallback_to_googlebot_rules | yes | not documented | different |
| honours_crawl_delay | no | no | same |
| observed_fetches_robots_txt | not documented | no | different |
| observed_paths_fetched | robots_txt_and_home_only | not documented | different |
| observed_requested_mcp_endpoint | not documented | yes | different |
| publishes_ip_list | yes | yes | same |
| purpose_documented | mixed | mixed | same |
| reads_llms_txt | not_documented | not documented | different |
| respects_robots_txt | yes | yes | same |
| robots_txt_token | not documented | GoogleOther | different |
| separate_search_and_training_tokens | partial | not_documented | different |
| user_agent_string_full | 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) | not documented | different |
| verifiable_by_rdns | yes | yes | same |
Differences
Sources
- 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/crawling-indexing/google-common-crawlers
- https://developers.google.com/static/crawling/ipranges/common-crawlers.json
- https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/observed/applebot
- https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/observed/googleother
- https://search.developer.apple.com/applebot.json
- https://support.apple.com/en-us/119829