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What is GoogleOther?

Google's generic crawler for research and development fetches outside Search. It follows robots.txt and shares the common crawler IP list.

robots.txt token
GoogleOther
Operator
Google
Purpose
Training
Obeys robots.txt
Yes The operator says it follows robots.txt.
Documented by operator
Yes, on the operator's own pages.
Published IP list
developers.google.com/static/crawling/ipranges/common-crawlers.json
Documentation
developers.google.com

Block GoogleOther from your whole site

robots.txt
User-agent: GoogleOther
Disallow: /

Allow it, but keep private paths out

robots.txt
User-agent: GoogleOther
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/

Other bots from Google

Add it to a robots.txt in the generator →

Sources

  1. developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/google-common-crawlers

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