Googlebot-News

Google · Search engines · json

User-agent: Googlebot-News
Disallow: /
robots.txt tokenGooglebot-News
User-agent containsGooglebot-News
OperatorGoogle
CategorySearch engines
robots.txtobeys robots.txt (documented)
Verify bypublished IP ranges
Published ranges169 IPv4 + 146 IPv6 · json · source

What it is

A robots.txt token controlling inclusion in Google News. It does not have its own user-agent string; the fetch arrives as Googlebot.

What blocking it costs you

Removal from Google News, with normal Search unaffected.

Full user-agent string

(uses the Googlebot user-agent; controlled by the Googlebot-News robots token)

Allow it instead

User-agent: Googlebot-News
Allow: /

Operator documentation: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/overview-google-crawlers
Machine copies: json · markdown
Policies that name this crawler: allow-all · allow-ai-search-only · maximum-ai-visibility