Google Crawling from China?
Posted by Andy Langton on Friday, 11 October 2013Most people involved in organic search in one way or another will know that Google's crawling infrastructure is located in the US. I came across a somewhat odd counter-example today. One tool on this site shows a user's IP address. I sometimes use this as a quick check of a Googlebot IP - since I can see the IP crawled from in the text snippet. Checking this out today, I came across an unusual IP in the snippet, which geo-locates to China: