Rattlesnakes By Mail

GoogleOther vs OAI-AdsBot

GoogleOther and OAI-AdsBot compared on 11 documented fields, from 17 claims, last verified 2026-09-15.

Field	GoogleOther	OAI-AdsBot	Comparison
honours_crawl_delay	no	not_documented	different
observed_fetches_robots_txt	no	not documented	different
observed_requested_mcp_endpoint	yes	not documented	different
publishes_ip_list	yes	yes	same
purpose_documented	mixed	ads	different
respects_robots_txt	yes	not_documented	different
robots_txt_token	GoogleOther	not documented	different
scope_of_crawling	not documented	limited to submitted ad landing pages	different
separate_search_and_training_tokens	not_documented	not_documented	same
user_agent_string_full	not documented	Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; OAI-AdsBot/1.0; +https://openai.com/adsbot	different
verifiable_by_rdns	yes	not_documented	different

Differences

Field	GoogleOther statement	OAI-AdsBot statement
honours_crawl_delay	Google does not support the robots.txt Crawl-delay directive for GoogleOther.	OpenAI does not publish whether OAI-AdsBot honours the robots.txt Crawl-delay directive.
observed_fetches_robots_txt	GoogleOther 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.	not documented
observed_requested_mcp_endpoint	GoogleOther 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.	not documented
purpose_documented	GoogleOther is a generic crawler that Google product teams use to fetch publicly accessible content from sites.	OAI-AdsBot visits landing pages submitted as ads on ChatGPT to check compliance with OpenAI policies.
respects_robots_txt	GoogleOther obeys robots.txt rules when crawling automatically.	OpenAI does not publish whether OAI-AdsBot honours robots.txt disallow rules.
robots_txt_token	The robots.txt token for GoogleOther is GoogleOther.	not documented
scope_of_crawling	not documented	OAI-AdsBot visits only pages submitted as ads on ChatGPT.
user_agent_string_full	not documented	OAI-AdsBot sends the user agent string Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko); compatible; OAI-AdsBot/1.0; +https://openai.com/adsbot.
verifiable_by_rdns	GoogleOther 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-AdsBot.

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