Googlebot is shown as iPhone

[sktnetwork]

We screwed up our internal analytics by this issue.

Sample Input UserAgent: "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 6_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/536.26 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.0 Mobile/10A5376e Safari/8536.25 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)"

Output: iPhone.

Expected Output: GoogleBot

Solution / Fix: The parsing priority for Googlebot (and other bots) must be high. Replace the function checkBrowsers with this:

protected function checkBrowsers()
{
    return (
        // well-known, well-used
        // Special Notes:
        // (1) Opera must be checked before FireFox due to the odd
        //     user agents used in some older versions of Opera
        // (2) WebTV is strapped onto Internet Explorer so we must
        //     check for WebTV before IE
        // (3) (deprecated) Galeon is based on Firefox and needs to be
        //     tested before Firefox is tested
        // (4) OmniWeb is based on Safari so OmniWeb check must occur
        //     before Safari
        // (5) Netscape 9+ is based on Firefox so Netscape checks
        //     before FireFox are necessary

        // common bots
        $this->checkBrowserGoogleBot() ||
        $this->checkBrowserMSNBot() ||
        $this->checkBrowserBingBot() ||
        $this->checkBrowserSlurp() ||

        $this->checkBrowserWebTv() ||
        $this->checkBrowserInternetExplorer() ||
        $this->checkBrowserOpera() ||
        $this->checkBrowserGaleon() ||
        $this->checkBrowserNetscapeNavigator9Plus() ||
        $this->checkBrowserFirefox() ||
        $this->checkBrowserChrome() ||
        $this->checkBrowserOmniWeb() ||

        // common mobile
        $this->checkBrowserAndroid() ||
        $this->checkBrowseriPad() ||
        $this->checkBrowseriPod() ||
        $this->checkBrowseriPhone() ||
        $this->checkBrowserBlackBerry() ||
        $this->checkBrowserNokia() ||

        // check for facebook external hit when loading URL
        $this->checkFacebookExternalHit() ||

        // WebKit base check (post mobile and others)
        $this->checkBrowserSafari() ||

        // everyone else
        $this->checkBrowserNetPositive() ||
        $this->checkBrowserFirebird() ||
        $this->checkBrowserKonqueror() ||
        $this->checkBrowserIcab() ||
        $this->checkBrowserPhoenix() ||
        $this->checkBrowserAmaya() ||
        $this->checkBrowserLynx() ||
        $this->checkBrowserShiretoko() ||
        $this->checkBrowserIceCat() ||
        $this->checkBrowserIceweasel() || 
        $this->checkBrowserW3CValidator() ||
        $this->checkBrowserMozilla() /* Mozilla is such an open standard that you must check it last */
    );
}

[cbschuld]

this is an interesting issue because google bot is using emulation here to look at it through different lenses... the question is do we care if it's the bot or do we care of it's iPhone; somewhat interested in the larger opinion

[sktnetwork]

We should put it as GoogleBot, as for any analytical purposes, it's GoogleBot.

[cbschuld]

@sktnetwork - I can follow that thinking; I'll make some adjustments for 1.9.4 ; thanks.

[cbschuld]

@sktnetwork - it will be in 1.9.5 - didn't make it into 1.94 - I ran out of time

[Eraser3]

I guess this never made it into production. I used your script today and ran into the same problem when trying to detect Googlebot. Also, Googlebot uses different "names" these days. I see "GoogleOther" allot. For the complete list, see: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/overview-google-crawlers