--- title: "What is Googlebot? Google's Bot Explained | Kitbase" description: "Google's main crawler for Search indexing and discovery. How to identify and verify it, and what its traffic means for your site." canonical: https://kitbase.dev/bot-directory/googlebot --- [Home](/) [Bot Directory](/bot-directory) Googlebot # Googlebot by Google Search engine UA + IP range Crawls pages for a traditional search index, which is what lets them rank. Google's main crawler for Search indexing and discovery. ## What it usually means Google is crawling this page for its search index. This is the traffic that determines whether the page can rank. ## How to identify it User-Agent tokens `googlebot` robots.txt stanza `User-agent: Googlebot` Free tools [Verify a Googlebot request](/tools/bot-verifier?ua=googlebot) [Check if your site allows Googlebot](/tools/ai-crawler-access-checker) ## How it's verified Published IP-range endpoints - [https://developers.google.com/static/crawling/ipranges/common-crawlers.json](https://developers.google.com/static/crawling/ipranges/common-crawlers.json) - [https://developers.google.com/static/crawling/ipranges/special-crawlers.json](https://developers.google.com/static/crawling/ipranges/special-crawlers.json) - [https://developers.google.com/static/crawling/ipranges/user-triggered-fetchers.json](https://developers.google.com/static/crawling/ipranges/user-triggered-fetchers.json) - [https://developers.google.com/static/crawling/ipranges/user-triggered-fetchers-google.json](https://developers.google.com/static/crawling/ipranges/user-triggered-fetchers-google.json) - [https://developers.google.com/static/crawling/ipranges/user-triggered-agents.json](https://developers.google.com/static/crawling/ipranges/user-triggered-agents.json) Currently loaded ranges (sample) Refreshed Sep 4, 2026 `2001:4860:4801:10::/64``2001:4860:4801:11::/64``2001:4860:4801:12::/64``2001:4860:4801:13::/64``2001:4860:4801:14::/64``2001:4860:4801:15::/64``2001:4860:4801:16::/64``2001:4860:4801:17::/64``2001:4860:4801:18::/64``2001:4860:4801:19::/64` 5 IP sources configured Reverse DNS suffixes `.googlebot.com``.google.com``.googleusercontent.com` [Google's page for Googlebot](https://developers.google.com/crawling/docs/crawlers-fetchers/overview-google-crawlers) ## Sources - [Google crawler docs](https://developers.google.com/crawling/docs/crawlers-fetchers/overview-google-crawlers) ## More from Google [ Google-CloudVertexBot Google crawler for targeted crawls requested by site owners building Vertex AI agents. ](/bot-directory/google-cloudvertexbot)[ Google-InspectionTool Google crawler used by Search testing tools such as Rich Results Test and URL Inspection. ](/bot-directory/google-inspectiontool)[ Google-NotebookLM Google fetcher associated with NotebookLM-style answer workflows. ](/bot-directory/google-notebooklm)[ Google-Read-Aloud Google fetcher associated with read-aloud and assistant experiences. ](/bot-directory/google-read-aloud)[ Google-Agent Google user-triggered fetcher used by AI or product experiences. ](/bot-directory/google-agent)[ GoogleAgent Google user-triggered fetcher used by AI or product experiences. ](/bot-directory/googleagent)[ GoogleOther Generic Google crawler used by product teams for public content fetches, including research and development. ](/bot-directory/googleother)[ Google-Extended Robots token controlling whether Google may use crawled content for Gemini training and grounding; not a separate HTTP crawler. ](/bot-directory/google-extended) ## Similar bots [ Amazonbot Amazon Amazon crawler used to improve Alexa answers and Amazon products. ](/bot-directory/amazonbot)[ Amzn-SearchBot Amazon Amazon crawler that makes content eligible for Amazon search experiences. ](/bot-directory/amzn-searchbot)[ Applebot Apple Apple crawler for Siri and Spotlight Suggestions, spanning search and training use. ](/bot-directory/applebot)[ Baiduspider Baidu Baidu's crawler for its search index. ](/bot-directory/baiduspider) ## See if Googlebot has visited your site Kitbase verifies and tracks bot and AI crawler traffic separately from human visitors, so you know exactly who's hitting your site. [Start Free Trial](https://app.kitbase.dev/signup)