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by matt-p 638 days ago
Now try it from a google cloud vm.
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Pretty sure that won't work, they let you validate whether an IP address is used by GoogleBot specifically, not just owned by Google in general. I doubt they are foolish enough to use the same pool of IP addresses for their internal crawlers and their public cloud.

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/...

It depends how the site has implemented it, a huge number just look for AS origination and *googleuserconent.com