As we know, Google has often declared that its crawlers, Googlebot, etc, travel from Mountain View, California. But the truth is, that is wherever they self-declare the bots are coming from. Google has information centers each complete the world, and moreover though Google whitethorn beryllium declaring the crawler is coming from a circumstantial location, it mightiness beryllium coming from a different location.
I asked John Mueller of Google, aft he wrote, "I'm beautiful judge the beingness location [of Googlebot] varies. What benignant of issues are you seeing?" I asked arsenic a travel up, "wasn't it mostly from California but immoderate bots whitethorn trial aliases travel from different locations but mostly CA?"
Gary Illyes from Google responded connected Bluesky, "IP location is declared (this is conscionable a matter spot you tin group for the IPs you manage) to beryllium US, Mountain View, successful astir cases, but the existent egress points vary." The illustration he gave was, "if the IP is assigned to a cluster successful ATL, the egress constituent will beryllium ATL."
So while Google crawlers mightiness opportunity they are coming from Mountain View, California, they whitethorn really beryllium coming from a different location.
We cognize blocking US traffic would origin big problems from Google crawling. We besides know, Google tin crawl locally from different regions if basal pinch locally alert crawlers. In 2011, we saw Google crawling from China but that mightiness person been a location ineligible requirement.
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