Identity: Publishes its IP addresses.
How to recognise it
- Published IP list: https://developers.google.com/static/crawling/ipranges/special-crawlers.json
- Reverse DNS ends in
googlebot.com,google.com,googleusercontent.com(then forward-confirm) - User agent contains
Mediapartners-Google,APIs-Google,Google-Safety
With Double Agent
Sessions from AdsBot-Google are labelled bot with agent_id: google.adsbot, and tagged in your analytics. Nothing is blocked unless you choose to. Install: https://doubleagent.so/install.md
Source: https://developers.google.com/crawling/docs/crawlers-fetchers/google-special-case-crawlers ยท Operator docs: https://developers.google.com/crawling/docs/crawlers-fetchers/google-special-case-crawlers