GoogleOther
Google’s general-purpose fetcher for internal R&D and one-off crawls.
| Operator | |
| Role | On-demand fetcherFetches specific pages on demand for its operator. |
| User agent token | GoogleOther |
| robots.txt | The operator documents honouring robots.txt. |
| Operator docs | developers.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: /
Other Google crawlers
- Google-ExtendedTraining crawler
- GooglebotSearch index crawler
Is GoogleOther allowed on your site right now?
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.