dstiles - 11:20 pm on Nov 16, 2010 (gmt 0)

For reference, the following IPs accessed my server as "Google Web Preview" between the dates indicated. I doubt they will be the only ones.

I originally thought some of them had legitimate googlebot rDNS. I was mistaken: they were allotted "bot" status by me on the grounds they were used by google for some other purpose (see notes below).

The IPs had no rDNS at the time of writing.

IPs trapped between 01-Nov-2010 00:00 GMT and 16-Nov-2010 22:30 GMT

66.249.82.1
66.249.82.2
66.249.82.66
66.249.82.129
66.249.82.199

66.249.85.65

72.14.194.33

72.14.202.80
72.14.202.85
72.14.202.86

74.125.152.80
74.125.152.81
74.125.152.82

74.125.158.81

(feedfetcher, translate etc also use these...)

64.233.172.1
64.233.172.6
64.233.172.17
64.233.172.18
64.233.172.20

74.125.16.1
74.125.16.2
74.125.16.3
74.125.16.65
74.125.16.66
74.125.16.68

74.125.74.129
74.125.74.130
74.125.74.131
74.125.74.132
74.125.74.194
74.125.74.195
74.125.74.196

74.125.75.1
74.125.75.3

(google verification bot uses this...)

72.14.194.17

Given the general re-use culture prevalent at google for some years now, what chance do we stand of identifying the preview bot accurately? We have NO guarantee it's what it claims to be.