At SES Jose, a few people asked for a way to authenticate Googlebot, so I talked to some folks on the crawl team and got an official way from them to verify Googlebot. Since it was official, I said “What the heck, why not throw it up on the official Google webmaster blog.

And so I did–the post is live here. Enjoy, and hope this is helpful to folks.

Read the Full Article by Matt Cutts at Matt Cutts: Gadgets, Google, and SEO that was origially posted on September 21, 2006, 6:03pm