Google-CloudVertexBot
GoodBotVerifiedBOTCrawler available to site owners to request crawls of their own sites for targeted AI training Operated by Google.
What is Google-CloudVertexBot?
Google-CloudVertexBot is a web crawler operated by Google. Crawler available to site owners to request crawls of their own sites for targeted AI training It is part of the growing wave of AI-powered crawlers that collect web data for training and improving AI models.
Identification
CloudVertexBotHow we rated this bot
Verified by Cloudflare, which confirms who runs it, with no widespread reports of abuse.
What we read
- Meta Has New Web-Crawling Bots That Sneakily Get Around Robots.txt - Business Insider
- and Google. By telling these "robots" where not to go on your site,
- What Is a robots.txt File? (And When To Use One)
- Known Agents Review: Google Analytics for Bots | Agent Finder
- and Google. By telling these "robots" where not to go on your site,
Why it crawls your site
Google-CloudVertexBot crawls websites to collect and process web content for AI model training and improvement. It is operated by Google as part of their AI and machine learning infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.
IP ranges
Requests from Google-CloudVertexBot originate from these published ranges. For strict verification, match the source IP against this list in addition to checking the user-agent and reverse-DNS.
Block or allow Google-CloudVertexBot
Add a Disallow rule for CloudVertexBot in your robots.txt file. You can also block at the server level using your web server configuration or CDN firewall rules to filter requests matching the user-agent string.
# Block Google-CloudVertexBot from crawling your entire site User-agent: CloudVertexBot Disallow: / # Allow Google-CloudVertexBot full access User-agent: CloudVertexBot Allow: /
Ensure your robots.txt allows CloudVertexBot. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Google's documentation.
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From the community
Recent Reddit discussion mentioning this bot.
Related bots
Other crawlers operated by Google.
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