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by skybrian 452 days ago
Thanks for the link. Apparently Google has more bots than I thought. But is that really a Google bot or is someone else using their name? I don't see 'GoogleAssociationService' listed in their documentation [1].

They do say it’s from Google IP addresses, but it might be someone running a bot in Google Cloud? Maybe they checked that, but we can’t tell from a tweet.

Seems like a reasonable approach might be to whitelist the documented Google bots and block others.

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