GoogleOther vs PerplexityBot
GoogleOther and PerplexityBot compared on 12 documented fields, from 18 claims, last verified 2026-09-15.
| Field | GoogleOther | PerplexityBot | Comparison |
|---|---|---|---|
| cites_sources | not documented | yes | different |
| 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 | 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 | not_documented | same |
| user_agent_string_full | not documented | Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; PerplexityBot/1.0; +https://perplexity.ai/perplexitybot) | different |
| verifiable_by_rdns | yes | not_documented | different |
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://docs.perplexity.ai/docs/resources/perplexity-crawlers
- https://rattlesnakesbymail.com/observed/googleother
- https://www.perplexity.ai/perplexitybot.json