Google Officials

Google Officials are requests from the official Google network that don't carry a unique bot identifier in the user-agent — neither Googlebot, Googlebot-Image, AdsBot nor any other published crawler name.

BotScope detects them via IP range membership in Google's official published IP ranges (regularly updated JSON lists from Google itself). When a request comes from these ranges but the UA contains no known bot name, we classify it as Google Officials — Google-verified, service-not-verified.

Possible sources:

• Internal Google tools whose crawler identity is not publicly documented
• Experimental crawlers in pre-release phases
• Server-to-server calls from Google Cloud Functions / Cloud Run that route Google services internally to your site

The classification is a trusted signal source — the request demonstrably originates from Google infrastructure, even if the exact bot type isn't resolved further.

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