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selcuka • today at 2:10 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Google bots definitely come disguised, to check whether the web site serves different content to non-Google user agents.


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walrus01 • today at 2:16 PM

There's also the very well known inverse phenomenon of absolutely non-google people trying to disguise their crawler as a googlebot useragent, which has been a thing since at least... 15 years now?

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