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Google Safety

Google
Directory statusActive
Last updatedSep 20, 2026

Overview

Google Safety is a monitoring bot from Google used for security scanning, malware checks, vulnerability assessment, certificate review; it appears in server logs as .

Profile

Operator
Google
Classification
Security
Verification
Verified
Last verified
Aug 7, 2026
Common Use
Abuse-specific crawling, including malware discovery for publicly posted links on Google properties.
Company
Google
Confidence
High
Family
Google
Identity Type
verified-bot
Kind
crawler
Purpose
abuse-and-malware-detection
Respects Robots
no