Rattlesnakes By Mail

Googlebot vs GoogleOther

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

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

Googlebot and GoogleOther, fields comparedGooglebot and GoogleOther, fields compared. Different is the largest with 9 fields, out of 13 fields in total.Same: 4 fieldsSame4Different: 9 fieldsDifferent9
Googlebot and GoogleOther, fields compared. Different is the largest with 9 fields, out of 13 fields in total. Source: each vendor's own crawler documentation, quoted and dated on every claim page.
FieldGooglebotGoogleOtherComparison
cites_sourcesyesnot documenteddifferent
honours_crawl_delaynonosame
observed_fetches_robots_txtnot documentednodifferent
observed_requested_mcp_endpointnot documentedyesdifferent
observed_verified_request_ratio_census0.991not documenteddifferent
publishes_ip_listyesyessame
purpose_documentedsearchmixeddifferent
reads_llms_txtnonot documenteddifferent
respects_robots_txtyesyessame
robots_txt_tokennot documentedGoogleOtherdifferent
separate_search_and_training_tokensyesnot_documenteddifferent
user_agent_string_fullMozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)not documenteddifferent
verifiable_by_rdnsyesyessame

Differences

FieldGooglebot statementGoogleOther statement
cites_sourcesGoogle AI Overviews and AI Mode return AI generated responses with links to supporting websites.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_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.
observed_verified_request_ratio_censusGooglebot 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
purpose_documentedGooglebot crawls pages for Google Search, Google Images, Google Video, Google News, and Discover.GoogleOther is a generic crawler that Google product teams use to fetch publicly accessible content from sites.
reads_llms_txtGoogle Search does not use llms.txt files.not documented
robots_txt_tokennot documentedThe robots.txt token for GoogleOther is GoogleOther.
separate_search_and_training_tokensGoogle separates Search crawling under the Googlebot token from Gemini training under the Google-Extended token.Google does not document whether content fetched by GoogleOther is used for Gemini training.
user_agent_string_fullGooglebot sends the user agent string Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html).not documented

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