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GoogleOther

Name: GoogleOther
Author: Google

GoodBotVerifiedBOT

Generic crawler that may be used by various product teams for fetching publicly accessible content from sites. For example, it may be used for one-off crawls for internal research and development. https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/overview-google-crawlers#googleother Operated by Google.

Operator website ↗

GoodBot

Assessment

AI Crawler

What is GoogleOther?

GoogleOther is a web crawler operated by Google. Generic crawler that may be used by various product teams for fetching publicly accessible content from sites. For example, it may be used for one-off crawls for internal research and development. https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/overview-google-crawlers#googleother It is part of the growing wave of AI-powered crawlers that collect web data for training and improving AI models.

Helpful — Verified, safe crawler. Respects robots.txt and provides operator documentation.

Identification

Bot name

GoogleOther

Operator

Google

Why it crawls your site

GoogleOther 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 GoogleOther 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.

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Block or allow GoogleOther

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for GoogleOther 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 GoogleOther from crawling your entire site
User-agent: GoogleOther
Disallow: /

# Allow GoogleOther full access
User-agent: GoogleOther
Allow: /