Access logs with IPs starting with "2001:4860:7:70e::*" and referrered from google

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Hello, for the past month, I’ve noticed that many entries on my access.log file have an IP that starts with ‘2001:4860:7:70*::*’, for example: 2001:4860:7:70e::ec. According to an IP GEO Lookup, this IP belongs to Google. The referrer is actually https://www google.com

Initially, I thought it was someone from Google searching and entering my site, but I’ve noticed the same pattern of IPs '2001:4860:7:70e::* ’ in the logs accessing my site with a referrer URL of https://www.google.com/.

I’m wondering if anyone else has experienced this. Could it be that Google employees (at least 50 times a day) are using the internet from Google offices and visiting my site? Of course, this doesn’t make sense, so I’m curious if anyone has an explanation for this.

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That IP is one from the Google Pre-Fetch Proxy - see Private prefetch proxy in Chrome

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