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No it's not. The IP addresses are Google's and thus easily targeted on the server for cloaking.
by pierrefar 17y ago
No it's not. The IP addresses are Google's and thus easily targeted on the server for cloaking.
- sern 17y agoNormal Googlebot IP addresses resolve to names like crawl-blah.googlebot.com. These ones don't. You could use whois to detect them, but it's a lot slower than DNS. I guess that Google expects the SEO guys not to be smart enough to use something like pwhois to quickly check that the IP's on a Google AS (likely).
- pierrefar 17y agoMy argument still stands: the hurdle for anyone serious about cloaking is easy to work around.
- gte910h 17y agoThere are some google ip addresses. Who knows how many google but registered in another company's name IP addresses they're doing this sort of thing from