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Googlebot

Googlebot is Google's crawler. This crawler fetches pages to build a search or answer index.

Crawler facts

Operator	Google
User agent token	`googlebot`
Traffic type	Search index
Verification	UA + IP range
IP source	https://developers.google.com/static/crawling/ipranges/common-crawlers.json

What "verified" means for Googlebot

For Googlebot, "verified" means DataSaaS compares the request IP against Google's published ranges. A request carrying this user agent from any other IP is recorded as unverified.

Track it

Googlebot renders JavaScript, so the DataSaaS browser tag captures it automatically through the events beacon. No extra setup is required.

Read the bot-traffic setup guide

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