Rattlesnakes By Mail

ClaudeBot vs GoogleOther

ClaudeBot and GoogleOther compared on 15 documented fields, from 21 claims, last verified 2026-09-15.

FieldClaudeBotGoogleOtherComparison
anti_circumvention_stancedocumentednot documenteddifferent
honours_crawl_delayyesnodifferent
observed_fetches_jsonyesnot documenteddifferent
observed_fetches_markdownyesnot documenteddifferent
observed_fetches_robots_txtnot documentednodifferent
observed_first_request_path/sitemap.xmlnot documenteddifferent
observed_format_pass_orderhtml_json_mdnot documenteddifferent
observed_requested_mcp_endpointnot documentedyesdifferent
publishes_ip_listyesyessame
purpose_documentedtrainingmixeddifferent
respects_robots_txtyesyessame
robots_txt_tokennot documentedGoogleOtherdifferent
separate_search_and_training_tokensyesnot_documenteddifferent
user_agent_string_fullnot_documentednot documenteddifferent
verifiable_by_rdnsnot_documentedyesdifferent

Differences

FieldClaudeBot statementGoogleOther statement
anti_circumvention_stanceClaudeBot respects anti-circumvention technologies and does not bypass CAPTCHAs on crawled sites.not documented
honours_crawl_delayAnthropic supports the non-standard robots.txt Crawl-delay extension for ClaudeBot.Google does not support the robots.txt Crawl-delay directive for GoogleOther.
observed_fetches_jsonClaudeBot made 177 JSON requests to Rattlesnakes By Mail between 2026-09-13T20:00Z and 2026-09-15T09:00Z, covering the .json twin of 170 base paths. The .json URLs of Rattlesnakes By Mail appear in no entry of the 171 URL sitemap.not documented
observed_fetches_markdownClaudeBot fetched the .md twin of 170 base paths on Rattlesnakes By Mail between 2026-09-13T20:00Z and 2026-09-15T09:00Z, 170 Markdown requests of 542 ClaudeBot requests in that window. The .md URLs of Rattlesnakes By Mail appear in no entry of the 171 URL sitemap.not documented
observed_fetches_robots_txtnot documentedGoogleOther made 93 requests to Rattlesnakes By Mail between 2026-09-13T20:00Z and 2026-09-15T09:00Z and fetched /robots.txt on none of those requests. GoogleOther's first request to Rattlesnakes By Mail was the home page at 2026-09-14T12:03:30Z.
observed_first_request_pathClaudeBot's first request to Rattlesnakes By Mail between 2026-09-13T20:00Z and 2026-09-15T09:00Z was /sitemap.xml at 2026-09-14T19:53:45Z. ClaudeBot fetched /robots.txt on the second request to Rattlesnakes By Mail.not documented
observed_format_pass_orderClaudeBot fetched Rattlesnakes By Mail in three format passes between 2026-09-13T20:00Z and 2026-09-15T09:00Z, HTML from 2026-09-14T20:52Z to 2026-09-14T20:57Z, then JSON from 2026-09-14T21:37Z to 2026-09-14T21:56Z, then Markdown from 2026-09-14T21:37Z to 2026-09-14T21:57Z. The same order holds on 170 of 170 base paths that ClaudeBot fetched in all three formats on Rattlesnakes By Mail.not documented
observed_requested_mcp_endpointnot documentedGoogleOther requested the /mcp endpoint of Rattlesnakes By Mail twice between 2026-09-13T20:00Z and 2026-09-15T09:00Z, at 2026-09-14T15:07:30Z and at 2026-09-14T18:27:49Z. Rattlesnakes By Mail returned status 405 to both GoogleOther requests for /mcp.
purpose_documentedClaudeBot collects web content for training Anthropic generative AI models.GoogleOther is a generic crawler that Google product teams use to fetch publicly accessible content from sites.
robots_txt_tokennot documentedThe robots.txt token for GoogleOther is GoogleOther.
separate_search_and_training_tokensAnthropic separates training and search controls into two robots.txt tokens: ClaudeBot for training and Claude-SearchBot for search.Google does not document whether content fetched by GoogleOther is used for Gemini training.
user_agent_string_fullAnthropic does not publish a full user agent string for ClaudeBot.not documented
verifiable_by_rdnsAnthropic does not publish a reverse-DNS verification method for ClaudeBot.GoogleOther requests are verifiable by reverse DNS lookup resolving to googlebot.com, google.com, or googleusercontent.com.

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