Rattlesnakes By Mail

GoogleOther vs PerplexityBot

GoogleOther and PerplexityBot compared on 12 documented fields, from 18 claims, last verified 2026-09-15.

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

GoogleOther and PerplexityBot, fields comparedGoogleOther and PerplexityBot, fields compared. Different is the largest with 9 fields, out of 12 fields in total.Same: 3 fieldsSame3Different: 9 fieldsDifferent9
GoogleOther and PerplexityBot, fields compared. Different is the largest with 9 fields, out of 12 fields in total. Source: each vendor's own crawler documentation, quoted and dated on every claim page.
FieldGoogleOtherPerplexityBotComparison
cites_sourcesnot documentedyesdifferent
honours_crawl_delaynonot_documenteddifferent
observed_fetches_robots_txtnonot documenteddifferent
observed_requested_mcp_endpointyesnot documenteddifferent
publishes_ip_listyesyessame
purpose_documentedmixedsearchdifferent
reads_llms_txtnot documentednot_documenteddifferent
respects_robots_txtyesyessame
robots_txt_tokenGoogleOthernot documenteddifferent
separate_search_and_training_tokensnot_documentednot_documentedsame
user_agent_string_fullnot documentedMozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; PerplexityBot/1.0; +https://perplexity.ai/perplexitybot)different
verifiable_by_rdnsyesnot_documenteddifferent

Differences

FieldGoogleOther statementPerplexityBot statement
cites_sourcesnot documentedPerplexity links to the websites that PerplexityBot surfaces in Perplexity search results.
honours_crawl_delayGoogle does not support the robots.txt Crawl-delay directive for GoogleOther.Perplexity does not publish whether PerplexityBot honours the robots.txt Crawl-delay directive.
observed_fetches_robots_txtGoogleOther 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_endpointGoogleOther 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_documentedGoogleOther is a generic crawler that Google product teams use to fetch publicly accessible content from sites.PerplexityBot surfaces and links websites in Perplexity search results.
reads_llms_txtnot documentedPerplexity does not publish whether PerplexityBot reads llms.txt files.
robots_txt_tokenThe robots.txt token for GoogleOther is GoogleOther.not documented
user_agent_string_fullnot documentedPerplexityBot sends the user agent string Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; PerplexityBot/1.0; +https://perplexity.ai/perplexitybot).
verifiable_by_rdnsGoogleOther requests are verifiable by reverse DNS lookup resolving to googlebot.com, google.com, or googleusercontent.com.Perplexity does not publish a reverse-DNS verification method for PerplexityBot.

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