Google · Other AI bots
GoogleOther
Generic Google crawler that product teams use to fetch public content, for example for one-off crawls for internal research and development. Blocking it does not affect any specific Google product.
- robots.txt name
GoogleOther- User agent
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GoogleOther) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36- Category
- Other AI bots: Other automated agents related to AI services.
- Follows robots.txt
- Yes
- Official documentation
- https://developers.google.com/crawling/docs/crawlers-fetchers/google-common-crawlers
- Published IP ranges
- https://developers.google.com/static/crawling/ipranges/common-crawlers.json
Checked against the official documentation on October 17, 2026.
Block or allow it in robots.txt
Add these lines to the robots.txt file at the root of your domain. To block it everywhere:
User-agent: GoogleOther
Disallow: /To allow it everywhere except one folder:
User-agent: GoogleOther
Disallow: /private/Is it really this bot?
Anyone can copy a user agent. To be sure a request comes from Google, compare its IP address with the ranges the company publishes.
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