GoogleOther
Google's generic crawler for internal research, development, and one-off product fetches. Explicitly NOT used for Search ranking — blocking it does not affect your indexing.
| robots.txt token | GoogleOther |
| Respects robots.txt | Yes — documented Google crawler |
| Verification | Same published Google crawler IP ranges and reverse DNS as Googlebot |
| Our recommendation | Your call — Free to disallow without touching Search — the question is only whether Google's non-search uses of your content bother you. |
Block GoogleOther with robots.txt
User-agent: GoogleOther
Disallow: /robots.txt is a request, not a wall — requests claiming to be GoogleOther from unverified networks should be treated as bad bots. How to verify crawlers by network →
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