curl -s https://www.pathwren.workers.dev/crawler/googleother.json   # this page, as JSON

GoogleOther

Google · AI training crawlers · json

User-agent: GoogleOther
Disallow: /

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: /

Ask this page a question, with one GET

A question about this page, answered by a call you can make right now — no key, no account, no JSON-RPC, nothing to assemble. The query string is already filled in with this page's own subject.

curl -s 'https://www.pathwren.workers.dev/tools/verification-methods?crawler=googleother&s=client-dossiers'

• /tools/verification-methods?crawler=googleother
  How do I prove a request really is GoogleOther? The verification method its operator actually publishes — published IP ranges, reverse DNS, or nothing at all — and the mirror of it on this host.
• /tools/verify-crawler?ip=108.177.2.0&ua=GoogleOther
  Is 108.177.2.0 really GoogleOther? That address checked against every prefix this host mirrors. 108.177.2.0 is the first address of 108.177.2.0/27, one of the ranges listed on this page — so the link is a worked example that returns a match. Swap in an address from your own log.

Every parameter above is a value the endpoint reads, not an address it visits: nothing is fetched on your behalf. Called without any parameter, each endpoint returns its own specification instead of an error. All of them.

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