GoogleOther

Google · AI training crawlers · json

User-agent: GoogleOther
Disallow: /
robots.txt tokenGoogleOther
User-agent containsGoogleOther
OperatorGoogle
CategoryAI training crawlers
robots.txtobeys robots.txt (documented)
Verify bypublished IP ranges
Published ranges135 IPv4 + 135 IPv6 · json · source

What it is

A generic fetcher used by Google product teams for one-off crawls and research, including data collection that does not belong to Search.

What blocking it costs you

No effect on Search indexing. Blocks internal Google research and product fetches.

Full user-agent string

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; GoogleOther)

Allow it instead

User-agent: GoogleOther
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 · block-ai-training · block-all-ai · maximum-ai-visibility