Rattlesnakes By Mail

GoogleOther vs OAI-SearchBot

GoogleOther and OAI-SearchBot compared on 13 documented fields, from 19 claims, last verified 2026-09-15.

Field	GoogleOther	OAI-SearchBot	Comparison
cites_sources	not documented	yes	different
honours_crawl_delay	no	not_documented	different
observed_arrival_before_sitemap	not documented	yes	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	search	different
reads_llms_txt	not documented	not_documented	different
respects_robots_txt	yes	yes	same
robots_txt_token	GoogleOther	not documented	different
separate_search_and_training_tokens	not_documented	yes	different
user_agent_string_full	not documented	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	GoogleOther statement	OAI-SearchBot statement
cites_sources	not documented	OAI-SearchBot surfaces crawled websites as links in ChatGPT search answers.
honours_crawl_delay	Google does not support the robots.txt Crawl-delay directive for GoogleOther.	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_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-SearchBot surfaces websites in search results in ChatGPT search features.
reads_llms_txt	not documented	OpenAI does not publish whether OAI-SearchBot reads llms.txt files.
robots_txt_token	The robots.txt token for GoogleOther is GoogleOther.	not documented
separate_search_and_training_tokens	Google does not document whether content fetched by GoogleOther is used for Gemini training.	OpenAI separates search and training controls into two robots.txt tokens: OAI-SearchBot for search and GPTBot for training.
user_agent_string_full	not documented	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	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-SearchBot.

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