Google 34

[lucy24]

This is a new one on me; a WebmasterWorld regular just drew my attention to it.

Way back when, all of 34 was Halliburton. Eventually the 192-255 segment was sold to AWS. And more recently, when nobody was looking, the 64-127 segment has been sold to Google. That's
34.64.0.0/10
which, if my arithmetic is right, is about 1000 times as many addresses as the /20 they oh-so-efficiently use for crawling.

This is not a new crawl range. Instead it means that some of those unwanted robots from 34 (don't know about the rest of you, but I've never ever met anyone from the 0-63 and 128-191 Halliburton-at-least-this-week sectors) are not AWS, as one might reasonably assume, but Google Cloud and similar.

Whether this makes any practical difference to anyone is a whole nother matter.

:: wandering off for deeper search to see if I've ever at all met anyone from Halliburton ::

[SumGuy]

I was going to post the following as a separate thread, but it's somewhat related to what you just posted so here goes...

Do any useful hits come from AS19527 (Google) ? Useful in terms of helping humans find your website that is.

There are about 2 million IP's in AS19527, spread across 38 CIDR's. Roughly 34.112-124.X.X and 35.206-216.X.X.

I'm blocking some / most of that at the server but thinking of blocking the entire AS at the router.