It's hilarious to think there exists people who think googlebot does not get special treatment from website operators. Here is an experiment you can do in a jiffy, write a script that crawls any major website and see how many URL fetches it takes before your IP gets blocked.
Googlebot has a range of IP addresses that it publicly announces so websites can whitelist them.
Googlebot has a range of IP addresses that it publicly announces so websites can whitelist them.