[ExI] test for bogus googles, was: RE: phony google

[Henry Rivera]

Isn't using an actual IP address for Google instead of "google.com"
the best thing one can do to ensure one is actually connecting to
Google?

I found this via Google (or did I?):

The following IP address ranges belong to Google:

64.233.160.0 - 64.233.191.255
66.102.0.0 - 66.102.15.255
66.249.64.0 - 66.249.95.255
72.14.192.0 - 72.14.255.255
74.125.0.0 - 74.125.255.255
209.85.128.0 - 209.85.255.255
216.239.32.0 - 216.239.63.255

Like many popular Web sites, Google utilizes multiple Internet servers
to handle incoming requests to its Web site. Instead of entering
http://www.google.com/ into the browser, a person can enter http://
followed by one of the above addresses, for example:

http://74.125.224.72/

Only certain addresses from Google's pool will work depending on the
physical location of the browser.

Besides serving www.google.com, some of the Google's IP addresses
above are utilized by its Googlebot Web crawlers.