GoogleBot — What It Is and How to Handle It

Googlebot is Google's web crawler that discovers and indexes web content for Google Search, including both mobile and desktop variants that crawl websites to understand their content.

Operator: Google | Type: Search Engine | Category: Search Engine

GoogleBot is a search engine crawler. Blocking it may affect your visibility in its associated search engine. Most publishers choose to allow verified search engine crawlers.

Centinel automatically detects GoogleBot using behavioral fingerprinting. When detected, you can allow it, block it, challenge it with an interstitial page, or set a per-request licensing fee — all enforced in real-time with under 2ms latency.