GoogleOther
Last updated 2 days ago.
What is GoogleOther?
About
GoogleOther is the generic crawler that may be used by various product teams for fetching publicly accessible content from sites. For example, it may be used for one-off crawls for internal research and development. It has no effect on Google Search or other products.
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Did you find GoogleOther in your logs?
If you've seen GoogleOther in your website logs, it indicates that GoogleOther has been visiting your site. This agent string is one of the known identifiers for this bot.
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Expected Behavior
This bot visits websites for various purposes including content analysis, data collection, or automated tasks. Its behavior may vary depending on its specific function and configuration.
Should I Block GoogleOther?
This bot is marked as compliant, meaning it generally respects robots.txt directives and follows good practices. You may choose to allow it if you want your content to be accessible to its services.
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Get Automated Bot ManagementHow Do I Block GoogleOther?
You can block this bot or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt file. Use Spyglasses analytics to check whether it's actually following your rules.
User Agent Tokens
GoogleOtherShould match instances of this botrobots.txt
# robots.txt # This should block GoogleOther User-agent: GoogleOther Disallow: /
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