# GoogleOther

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

| field | value |
|---|---|
| operator | Google |
| category | AI training crawlers |
| robots.txt token | `GoogleOther` |
| user-agent contains | `GoogleOther` |
| 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 | 135 IPv4 / 135 IPv6 |
| operator docs | https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/overview-google-crawlers |
| last reviewed | 2026-09-01 |

## 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)
```

## Block it

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

## Allow it

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

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