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by ebj73 2480 days ago
Do you know anything about how they're doing this? Is it special content in the http headers of the requests from Google? Or do they explicitly know which IP-addresses Google will be doing it's web crawling from?
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It's just a different version targeted at Googlebot. Google's IPs aren't secret, and Google is open about how to identify (and verify) their webcrawlers: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/80553