# New googlebot detection?
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-googlebot-detection/134306
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [November 24, 2019, 12:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-googlebot-detection/134306 "2019-11-24T12:15:45Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@mcdanlj](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcdanlj)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2019, 12:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-googlebot-detection/134306/1 "2019-11-24T12:15:45Z")
We noticed a spike in anonymous (not bot) page views at forum.makerforums.info and discovered that they were associated with `crawl-$IP.googlebot.com` hostnames in the 66.249/16 netblock. I found that Google recently announced that they are going to change their user agent strings:
[https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/10/updating-user-agent-of-googlebot.html](https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2019/10/updating-user-agent-of-googlebot.html)
Two concerns, related:
- Reporting (minor): The reporting was just wrong, since the graph didn’t show it as “Crawlers” activity but as “Anonymous”
- Indexing (important): Does the present-the-whole-page turn-off-infinite-scrolling code work with the new user agents? (If not, we might just have been badly un-indexed…)
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### Author:  [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2019, 12:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-googlebot-detection/134306/2 "2019-11-24T12:38:49Z")
I just tested the crawler detection with the user agents mentioned in the blog post and everything looks fine. You can test it yourself by using a browser plugin of your choice, setting one of the user agents and visiting your site.
The reporting uses data from the `RequestTracker` which relies on the same crawler detection, so I’m not sure why you are seeing bots counted as anonymous traffic.
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### Author:  [@mcdanlj](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcdanlj)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2019, 12:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-googlebot-detection/134306/3 "2019-11-24T12:53:57Z")
Aha! While I thought I saw the new user agents, I was wrong. Bad log search. The new Chrome version strings I saw came from `google-proxy-$IP.google.com` and were real traffic going through google proxy.
I’m very sorry, I should have dug deeper. But I guess now there is a record here that the new user agent strings are OK for the next confused person who comes to search! ☺
😊
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### Author:  [@gerhard](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gerhard)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2019, 11:36pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/new-googlebot-detection/134306/4 "2019-11-24T23:36:02Z")