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Google Pinpoint

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Verify Google Pinpoint IP Address

Verify if an IP address truly belongs to Google, using official verification methods. Enter both IP address and User-Agent from your logs for the most accurate bot verification.

Google Pinpoint is a research-focused tool used by journalists and investigative teams to analyze large volumes of documents. When users add URLs as sources, Pinpoint’s fetcher retrieves page content to extract text, metadata, and searchable information. The tool performs strictly user-initiated fetches, not broad crawling. Activity is low-volume and targeted to the exact URLs a user imports. Pinpoint does not influence Google Search indexing; its purpose is solely to help researchers organize, search, and analyze content within their private Pinpoint collections. It ignores the global user agent (*) rule. RobotSense.io verifies Google Pinpoint using Google’s official validation methods, ensuring only genuine Google Pinpoint traffic is identified.

This bot does not honor Crawl-Delay rule.

User Agent Examples

Contains: Google-Pinpoint
Example user agent strings for Google Pinpoint

Robots.txt Configuration for Google Pinpoint

Robots.txt User-Agent:Google-Pinpoint

Use this identifier in your robots.txt User-agent directive to target Google Pinpoint.

Recommended Configuration

Our recommended robots.txt configuration for Google Pinpoint:

User-agent: Google-Pinpoint
Allow: /

Completely Block Google Pinpoint

Prevent this bot from crawling your entire site:

User-agent: Google-Pinpoint
Disallow: /

Completely Allow Google Pinpoint

Allow this bot to crawl your entire site:

User-agent: Google-Pinpoint
Allow: /

Block Specific Paths

Block this bot from specific directories or pages:

User-agent: Google-Pinpoint
Disallow: /private/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /api/

Allow Only Specific Paths

Block everything but allow specific directories:

User-agent: Google-Pinpoint
Disallow: /
Allow: /public/
Allow: /blog/

Set Crawl Delay

Limit how frequently Google Pinpoint can request pages (in seconds):

User-agent: Google-Pinpoint
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 10

Note: This bot does not officially mention about honoring Crawl-Delay rule.