Security · 1h ago
Study: Majority of Googlebot traffic is fake
A new analysis finds that over 60% of traffic claiming to be Googlebot is actually from impersonators. The research tracked user-agent strings and IP addresses to identify the deception. This poses risks for sites relying on Googlebot detection for security or SEO decisions.
Meridian48 take
The finding underscores how easily bot detection can be spoofed, but the real question is whether this impersonation is malicious or just misconfigured crawlers.
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