GoogleOther
OthersVerify GoogleOther 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.
GoogleOther is a general-purpose crawler used by Google for internal research, large-scale data analysis, and non–Search-related fetching. It is part of Google’s secondary crawling infrastructure, designed to offload tasks that don’t require the full capabilities or strict policies of Googlebot. GoogleOther typically performs broad but lower-priority fetches, such as machine learning dataset generation or internal experiments. Its activity is generally lightweight compared to Googlebot and is separate from indexing operations that directly influence Google Search results. RobotSense.io verifies GoogleOther using Google’s official validation methods, ensuring only genuine GoogleOther traffic is identified.
User Agent Examples
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; GoogleOther)
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GoogleOther) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36Robots.txt Configuration for GoogleOther
GoogleOtherUse this identifier in your robots.txt User-agent directive to target GoogleOther.
Recommended Configuration
Our recommended robots.txt configuration for GoogleOther:
User-agent: GoogleOther
Allow: /Completely Block GoogleOther
Prevent this bot from crawling your entire site:
User-agent: GoogleOther
Disallow: /Completely Allow GoogleOther
Allow this bot to crawl your entire site:
User-agent: GoogleOther
Allow: /Block Specific Paths
Block this bot from specific directories or pages:
User-agent: GoogleOther
Disallow: /private/
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /api/Allow Only Specific Paths
Block everything but allow specific directories:
User-agent: GoogleOther
Disallow: /
Allow: /public/
Allow: /blog/Set Crawl Delay
Limit how frequently GoogleOther can request pages (in seconds):
User-agent: GoogleOther
Allow: /
Crawl-delay: 10Note: This bot does not officially mention about honoring Crawl-Delay rule.