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GoogleOther

Google’s general-purpose fetcher for internal R&D and one-off crawls.

OperatorGoogle
RoleOn-demand fetcherFetches specific pages on demand for its operator.
User agent tokenGoogleOther
robots.txtThe operator documents honouring robots.txt.
Operator docsdevelopers.google.com

Allow or block GoogleOther in robots.txt

Add either rule to the robots.txt at your site root. robots.txt is a request, not a lock: this operator documents honouring it, so the rule is normally enough.

Allow

User-agent: GoogleOther
Allow: /

Block

User-agent: GoogleOther
Disallow: /

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The free checker reads your robots.txt and probes your site as each AI crawler, so you see the policy and the reality in one pass.