I honestly have no idea how the tool grabbed Googlebot data from external sites, but I did hypothesis a few different reasons why it could be happening in this blog post here.
Visit Time: Feb 7th, 2026 1:02 AM
Googlebot IP Address: 66.249.68.71
Googlebot Hostname: crawl-66-249-68-71.googlebot.com
Googlebot User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/144.0.7559.132 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
Referrer: None
Status: 404
Visit Time: Feb 7th, 2026 1:02 AM
Googlebot IP Address: 66.249.68.65
Googlebot Hostname: crawl-66-249-68-65.googlebot.com
Googlebot User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/144.0.7559.132 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
Referrer: None
Status: 404
Visit Time: Jan 26th, 2026 12:43 AM
Googlebot IP Address: 66.249.71.68
Googlebot Hostname: crawl-66-249-71-68.googlebot.com
Googlebot User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
Referrer: None
Status: 200
Visit Time: Jan 26th, 2026 12:43 AM
Googlebot IP Address: 66.249.71.69
Googlebot Hostname: crawl-66-249-71-69.googlebot.com
Googlebot User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
Referrer: None
Status: 200
Visit Time: Jan 21st, 2026 3:16 AM
Googlebot IP Address: 66.249.75.43
Googlebot Hostname: crawl-66-249-75-43.googlebot.com
Googlebot User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/143.0.7499.192 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
Referrer: None
Status: 404
Visit Time: Jan 21st, 2026 3:16 AM
Googlebot IP Address: 66.249.75.44
Googlebot Hostname: crawl-66-249-75-44.googlebot.com
Googlebot User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/143.0.7499.192 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
Referrer: None
Status: 404
Visit Time: Jan 21st, 2026 3:16 AM
Googlebot IP Address: 66.249.75.43
Googlebot Hostname: crawl-66-249-75-43.googlebot.com
Googlebot User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/143.0.7499.192 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
Referrer: None
Status: 404
Visit Time: Jan 21st, 2026 3:16 AM
Googlebot IP Address: 66.249.75.43
Googlebot Hostname: crawl-66-249-75-43.googlebot.com
Googlebot User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/143.0.7499.192 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
Referrer: None
Status: 404
Visit Time: Jan 21st, 2026 3:16 AM
Googlebot IP Address: 66.249.75.43
Googlebot Hostname: crawl-66-249-75-43.googlebot.com
Googlebot User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/143.0.7499.192 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
Referrer: None
Status: 404
Visit Time: Jan 21st, 2026 3:16 AM
Googlebot IP Address: 66.249.75.44
Googlebot Hostname: crawl-66-249-75-44.googlebot.com
Googlebot User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/143.0.7499.192 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
Referrer: None
Status: 404
Visit Time: Jan 21st, 2026 3:16 AM
Googlebot IP Address: 66.249.75.43
Googlebot Hostname: crawl-66-249-75-43.googlebot.com
Googlebot User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/143.0.7499.192 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
Referrer: None
Status: 404
Visit Time: Jan 21st, 2026 3:16 AM
Googlebot IP Address: 66.249.75.45
Googlebot Hostname: crawl-66-249-75-45.googlebot.com
Googlebot User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/143.0.7499.192 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
Referrer: None
Status: 404
Visit Time: Jan 21st, 2026 3:16 AM
Googlebot IP Address: 66.249.75.45
Googlebot Hostname: crawl-66-249-75-45.googlebot.com
Googlebot User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/143.0.7499.192 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
Referrer: None
Status: 404
Visit Time: Jan 21st, 2026 3:16 AM
Googlebot IP Address: 66.249.75.45
Googlebot Hostname: crawl-66-249-75-45.googlebot.com
Googlebot User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/143.0.7499.192 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
Referrer: None
Status: 404
Visit Time: Jan 21st, 2026 3:16 AM
Googlebot IP Address: 66.249.75.44
Googlebot Hostname: crawl-66-249-75-44.googlebot.com
Googlebot User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/143.0.7499.192 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
Referrer: None
Status: 404