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		ddorian43 on Nov 19, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We can do better than DuckDuckGo https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/verifying...

Xylakant on Nov 19, 2020 [–]

This helps to verify that a bot that announces itself as google bot is indeed a google bot. It doesn’t help identify a bot that pretends to be a user/browser.

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