Search engines
GoogleOther
A general crawler Google product teams use to fetch public content outside Search.
Follows robots.txt- User agent token
- GoogleOther
- Operator
- Verification
- Published IP list , reverse DNS googlebot.com, google.com
- Source
- Google documentation
What a search engine crawler does
A search engine crawler indexes pages for regular search results. Blocking it removes the site from that engine, so most sites keep it allowed.
Block or allow GoogleOther in robots.txt
Add one of these to the robots.txt file at the root of your domain. Crawlers read it before they fetch anything else.
Block GoogleOther
User-agent: GoogleOther
Disallow: /Allow GoogleOther
User-agent: GoogleOther
Allow: /More from Google
Questions, answered.
GoogleOther is a search engine crawler run by Google. A general crawler Google product teams use to fetch public content outside Search.
Yes. Google says GoogleOther follows robots.txt.
Add "User-agent: GoogleOther" and "Disallow: /" to your robots.txt.
Check the request's IP address against the list Google publishes. A user agent alone proves nothing, since any script can copy it.
Yes. GoogleOther indexes pages for Google's search results, which send people to your site.
Usually not. Blocking GoogleOther removes your pages from its search results.
In its own documentation at https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/google-common-crawlers. Every fact on this page comes from there.
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