IPDebrief IP Intelligence Authority Platform

Googlebot IP ranges

Search engine crawlers

Googlebot uses 170 IPv4 blocks and 147 IPv6 blocks, covering about 5,088 unique IPv4 addresses, announced from AS15169. IPDebrief has analysed 102 addresses in these ranges; 0 (0%) currently carry a higher risk score.

IPv4 blocks
170
IPv6 blocks
147
Unique IPv4 addresses
5,088
Analysed addresses
102
Higher risk
0%

Range data updated 2026-11-07

About Googlebot

Googlebot is Google's web crawler, which fetches pages for Google Search and related products. Google publishes the ranges its crawlers use, separately from Google Cloud customer ranges and from Google's user-triggered fetchers.

What traffic from Googlebot addresses usually means

Genuine Googlebot traffic is a search engine indexing your pages and should normally be allowed; blocking it removes pages from Google Search. Many scrapers fake the Googlebot user agent, so the user agent alone proves nothing.

How to verify a Googlebot IP address

A genuine Googlebot address both falls inside Google's published crawler ranges and passes forward-confirmed reverse DNS: its PTR record ends in googlebot.com or google.com, and that hostname resolves back to the same address.

Largest Googlebot IPv4 ranges

Googlebot networks (ASNs)

Recently analysed Googlebot addresses

0 higher risk9 moderate93 lower risk

Frequently asked questions

How many IP addresses does Googlebot have?

Googlebot uses 170 IPv4 and 147 IPv6 address blocks. After merging overlapping ranges, the IPv4 blocks cover about 5,088 unique addresses. Counts change as the provider adds, retires or transfers address space.

How can I check if an IP address belongs to Googlebot?

Enter the address in the IPDebrief IP lookup. If it falls inside one of Googlebot's ranges, the profile names the provider alongside the announcing network, location and risk signals. A genuine Googlebot address both falls inside Google's published crawler ranges and passes forward-confirmed reverse DNS: its PTR record ends in googlebot.com or google.com, and that hostname resolves back to the same address.

Which ASN does Googlebot use?

Googlebot announces its address space from AS15169. An autonomous system number identifies the network that routes the addresses on the internet; each ASN page lists the analysed addresses observed in that network.

Is traffic from Googlebot IP addresses safe?

Genuine Googlebot traffic is a search engine indexing your pages and should normally be allowed; blocking it removes pages from Google Search. Many scrapers fake the Googlebot user agent, so the user agent alone proves nothing. Of the 102 Googlebot addresses IPDebrief has analysed, 0 (0%) currently score as higher risk, so judge each address on its own profile.

Where does this IP range data come from?

Ranges are compiled from address lists the operator publishes and from global routing data, refreshed regularly. Address-level risk comes from independent observations of each address, recomputed in the background.

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