{"id":16242,"date":"2026-08-14T13:46:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T13:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/14\/googlebot-say-they-are-coming-from-california-but-might-not\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T13:46:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T13:46:00","slug":"googlebot-say-they-are-coming-from-california-but-might-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/14\/googlebot-say-they-are-coming-from-california-but-might-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Googlebot Say They Are Coming From California But Might Not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As we know, Google has often declared that its crawlers, Googlebot, etc, come from Mountain View, California.  But the truth is, that is where they self-declare the bots are coming from. Google has data centers all over the world, and even though Google may be declaring the crawler is coming from a specific location, it might be coming from a different location.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we know, Google has often declared that its crawlers, Googlebot, etc, come from Mountain View, California. But the truth is, that is where they self-declare the bots are coming from. Google has data centers all over the world, and even though Google may be declaring the crawler is coming from a specific location, it might be coming from a different location.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"h5ap_radio_sources":[],"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-se-roundtable"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":false,"author_link":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/author\/craig\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}