Rattlesnakes By Mail

Applebot vs GoogleOther

Applebot and GoogleOther compared on 14 documented fields, from 20 claims, last verified 2026-09-15.

How many of the compared fields have the same answer for both crawlers, and how many differ.

Applebot and GoogleOther, fields comparedApplebot and GoogleOther, fields compared. Different is the largest with 9 fields, out of 14 fields in total.Same: 5 fieldsSame5Different: 9 fieldsDifferent9
Applebot and GoogleOther, fields compared. Different is the largest with 9 fields, out of 14 fields in total. Source: each vendor's own crawler documentation, quoted and dated on every claim page.
FieldApplebotGoogleOtherComparison
cites_sourcesyesnot documenteddifferent
fallback_to_googlebot_rulesyesnot documenteddifferent
honours_crawl_delaynonosame
observed_fetches_robots_txtnot documentednodifferent
observed_paths_fetchedrobots_txt_and_home_onlynot documenteddifferent
observed_requested_mcp_endpointnot documentedyesdifferent
publishes_ip_listyesyessame
purpose_documentedmixedmixedsame
reads_llms_txtnot_documentednot documenteddifferent
respects_robots_txtyesyessame
robots_txt_tokennot documentedGoogleOtherdifferent
separate_search_and_training_tokenspartialnot_documenteddifferent
user_agent_string_fullMozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.4 Safari/605.1.15 (Applebot/0.1; +http://www.apple.com/go/applebot)not documenteddifferent
verifiable_by_rdnsyesyessame

Differences

FieldApplebot statementGoogleOther statement
cites_sourcesApple includes links to source websites in Siri and Search answers to broad world knowledge questions.not documented
fallback_to_googlebot_rulesApplebot follows Googlebot robots.txt instructions when a robots.txt file mentions Googlebot but not Applebot.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_paths_fetchedApplebot made 6 requests to Rattlesnakes By Mail between 2026-09-13T20:00Z and 2026-09-15T09:00Z, to 2 distinct paths, /robots.txt and the home page. Applebot's 6 requests to Rattlesnakes By Mail run from 2026-09-14T12:22:23Z to 2026-09-14T12:59:26Z and alternate the two paths three times.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.
reads_llms_txtApple does not publish whether Applebot reads llms.txt files.not documented
robots_txt_tokennot documentedThe robots.txt token for GoogleOther is GoogleOther.
separate_search_and_training_tokensApple uses one crawler token, Applebot, for search crawling and for training crawling, and a second robots.txt token, Applebot-Extended, that opts content out of training use.Google does not document whether content fetched by GoogleOther is used for Gemini training.
user_agent_string_fullApplebot sends the desktop user agent string Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/17.4 Safari/605.1.15 (Applebot/0.1; +http://www.apple.com/go/applebot).not documented

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