| Geo or brand-word shortcut | Users who only want a rough first glance | City labels, organization names, and result-page tags | This has the highest false-positive cost and most easily merges raw network, service role, and seller into one answer | Low | Use only as first-pass screening |
| Google Cloud and Google network attribution | Users who need to answer whether it looks like the Google Cloud and Google network | ASN, WHOIS, prefixes, usage signals, and cloud-platform context | It answers whether the IP looks like the Google Cloud and Google network, but it still cannot replace product-line or seller conclusions | Low-medium | Best as the main decision layer |
| Service role plus seller cross-check | Users who need to separate product role and final responsibility together | Google Cloud compute, load balancing, Google Public DNS, Google-owned services, or third-party workloads on GCP; A Google network does not automatically mean Google Cloud VM. It may also be Google Public DNS, a Google-owned service, or a third-party workload on GCP | It needs more context and cannot be finished from one IP field alone | Medium | Best as the final judgment path |