What is Googlebot?
Googlebot is a search/index operated by Google. Use this crawler profile to identify user-agent tokens, operator signals, platform hints, and recommended handling.
Googlebot
Google · Search/index
- Version
- 2.1
- First seen
- May 20, 2026
- Last seen
- May 25, 2026
- Confidence
- Known user-agent token
What is Googlebot?
Googlebot is a search/index operated by Google. Googlebot is likely used by Google to discover, crawl, and index public web pages.
Googlebot matched a known crawler token in the user-agent string, but this page alone does not prove IP ownership.
How to identify Googlebot in logs
Search server logs for Googlebot. Matching those tokens is useful for discovery, but IP verification is still recommended before trusting the identity.
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/148.0.7778.96 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
Use this as a web-crawler lookup reference for identifying how this user-agent presents itself in server logs.
User-agent signals
- Product tokens
- Mozilla/5.0, Linux, Android, Nexus, Build/MMB29P, AppleWebKit/537.36, Gecko, Chrome/148.0.7778.96
- Documentation
- http://www.google.com/bot.html
- Contact
- None found
- Platform
- Android · Mobile
- Browser profile
- Chrome · Blink
- Browser-like UA
- Yes
- HTTP library
- Unknown
- Spoof risk
- Medium
Questions answered by this crawler profile
What is Googlebot?
Googlebot is likely used by Google to discover, crawl, and index public web pages.
Who operates Googlebot?
Googlebot is associated with Google.
How do I identify Googlebot in logs?
Search server logs for Googlebot. Matching those tokens is useful for discovery, but IP verification is still recommended before trusting the identity.
Should I allow Googlebot?
Verify IP ownership or behavior before making security decisions because user-agent strings can be spoofed. Allow it if you want this crawler to discover public pages, and use robots.txt or rate limits for policy control.
Does Googlebot respect robots.txt?
Robots.txt compliance cannot be proven from a user-agent string alone. Check the crawler operator documentation and your own logs before assuming behavior.