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this post was submitted on 14 Sep 2023
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They don't pretent to be googlebot, they use their own crawler they just don't share the name they use for it, so sites can't exclude it with robots.txt. They just scrape the same sites that googlebot does, so if the site is excluded by googlebot they also skip it.