About this bot
Googlebot Discovery records the observed Googlebot-Discovery token.
Google’s current public crawler model treats Discover as part of Google Search crawling rather than publishing a separate canonical Googlebot-Discovery identity.
Directory status: Active. Identity classification remains Unverified with Low confidence.
Do not grant Googlebot trust from this token alone.
How to identify this bot
- User-agent and crawler identifiers
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Googlebot-Discovery - Also known as
- googlebot-discovery
Details
- Kind
- Crawler
- Family
- Purpose
- Reported discovery related crawling
- Common Use
- Observed crawling reported as Discover-related; Google’s current documentation describes Discover under Google Search crawling rather than a separate `Googlebot-Discovery` crawler identity.
- Respects robots.txt
- Unknown
Verification
- Identity Type
- Observed
- Evidence Method
- Treat `Googlebot-Discovery` as an observed token only. Do not equate it with Google’s documented Googlebot identity without independent corroboration.
- Detection Notes
- The exact `Googlebot-Discovery` token is not a documented standalone Google crawler identity; a User-Agent match alone is insufficient attribution.
Website controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
# robots.txt behavior is unconfirmed. Use server-side controls if restriction is required.