# GoogleOther-Image

> The image variant of GoogleOther: one-off fetches by Google product and research teams that are not Search. It also answers to a GoogleOther group in robots.txt.

| field | value |
|---|---|
| operator | Google |
| category | AI training crawlers |
| robots.txt token | `GoogleOther-Image` |
| user-agent contains | `GoogleOther-Image` |
| robots.txt | obeys robots.txt (documented) |
| verify by | published IP ranges |
| published IP ranges | https://developers.google.com/static/search/apis/ipranges/special-crawlers.json |
| prefixes mirrored | 136 IPv4 / 136 IPv6 |
| operator docs | https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/google-common-crawlers |
| last reviewed | 2026-09-01 |

## What blocking it costs you

Google teams outside Search stop fetching your images. Image Search itself is unaffected — that is Googlebot-Image.

## Full user-agent string

```
GoogleOther-Image/1.0
```

## Block it

```
User-agent: GoogleOther-Image
Disallow: /
```

## Allow it

```
User-agent: GoogleOther-Image
Allow: /
```

JSON: https://www.pathwren.workers.dev/crawler/googleother-image.json · index: https://www.pathwren.workers.dev/llms.txt