Rattlesnakes By Mail

Googlebot vs OAI-SearchBot

Googlebot and OAI-SearchBot compared on 11 documented fields, from 20 claims, last verified 2026-09-15.

Field	Googlebot	OAI-SearchBot	Comparison
cites_sources	yes	yes	same
honours_crawl_delay	no	not_documented	different
observed_arrival_before_sitemap	not documented	yes	different
observed_verified_request_ratio_census	0.991	not documented	different
publishes_ip_list	yes	yes	same
purpose_documented	search	search	same
reads_llms_txt	no	not_documented	different
respects_robots_txt	yes	yes	same
separate_search_and_training_tokens	yes	yes	same
user_agent_string_full	Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)	Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36; compatible; OAI-SearchBot/1.4; +https://openai.com/searchbot	different
verifiable_by_rdns	yes	not_documented	different

Differences

Field	Googlebot statement	OAI-SearchBot statement
honours_crawl_delay	Google does not support the robots.txt Crawl-delay directive for Googlebot.	OpenAI does not publish whether OAI-SearchBot honours the robots.txt Crawl-delay directive.
observed_arrival_before_sitemap	not documented	OAI-SearchBot first requested Rattlesnakes By Mail at 2026-09-13T21:41:14Z, before the Rattlesnakes By Mail sitemap was submitted to Bing Webmaster Tools shortly before 2026-09-15T08:38Z and to Google Search Console at 2026-09-15T09:00Z. OAI-SearchBot made 3 requests to Rattlesnakes By Mail between 2026-09-13T20:00Z and 2026-09-15T09:00Z, all 3 to /robots.txt.
observed_verified_request_ratio_census	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.	not documented
reads_llms_txt	Google Search does not use llms.txt files.	OpenAI does not publish whether OAI-SearchBot reads llms.txt files.
user_agent_string_full	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).	OAI-SearchBot sends the user agent string Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36; compatible; OAI-SearchBot/1.4; +https://openai.com/searchbot.
verifiable_by_rdns	Googlebot requests are verifiable by reverse DNS lookup resolving to googlebot.com, google.com, or googleusercontent.com.	OpenAI does not publish a reverse-DNS verification method for OAI-SearchBot.

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