What is GoogleOther?
GoogleOther is Google's generic crawler used by various product teams for fetching publicly accessible content, including one-off crawls for internal research and development. You can set up Agent Analytics to see when GoogleOther visits your website.
Overview
| Operated By | |
| Source | Official Website |
| Expected To Follow Robots.txt | Yes |
| Insights Last Updated | September 15, 2026 |
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Expected Behavior
GoogleOther tends to make broad, high-volume sweeps across many pages. Timing is unpredictable: traffic may remain heavy throughout a collection pass, then stop entirely.
GoogleOther's User Agent
| User Agent | Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/151.0.7922.173 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; GoogleOther) |
How To Block GoogleOther With Robots.txt
Add this rule to your robots.txt file to block GoogleOther from accessing your website, or use Automatic Robots.txt to block all AI data scrapers at once. You can customize which pages are blocked by swapping out / for a different path.
User-agent: GoogleOther # https://knownagents.com/agents/googleother
Disallow: /Insights for GoogleOther
As of September 15, 2026, this data reflects agent visits measured across thousands of websites using Agent Analytics, combined with daily scans of the top 1000 websites and their robots.txt files.
Robots.txt Blocked Percentage
Country of Origin
Robots.txt Blocking Trend
9% of top websites block GoogleOther in their robots.txts.
Overall AI Data Scraper Traffic
2.7% of all web traffic came from AI data scrapers.
Top Visited Website Categories
The types of websites most frequently visited by GoogleOther.
Frequently Asked Questions
Should I Block GoogleOther?
Block GoogleOther if you want more control over whether your work is used for AI training. Allowing it may increase the chance that your brand appears in AI-generated answers, but either choice leaves traditional search rankings unchanged. For context, 9% of the top websites we track currently have robots.txt rules for GoogleOther.
Does GoogleOther Follow Robots.txt Rules?
Yes. GoogleOther is expected to follow robots.txt rules, so a disallow rule is the appropriate first step. Automatic Robots.txt can add and maintain that rule, while Agent Analytics lets you verify whether GoogleOther respects it.
Does GoogleOther Access Private Content?
Not through legitimate access. GoogleOther primarily targets public content, but some training-data scrapers also attempt to collect gated or paywalled pages. If content loads without authentication, assume it can be collected.
How Can I Tell if GoogleOther Is Visiting My Website?
Agent Analytics tracks visits from GoogleOther and every other known AI agent, crawler, and scraper, then authenticates each visit using GoogleOther's published verification method. You can also check your server logs for requests whose user-agent string contains "GoogleOther". Look for high page counts, short gaps between requests, and deep traversal through linked content. A matching log entry alone is not proof because any bot can claim to be GoogleOther.
Why Is GoogleOther Visiting My Website?
Your content matched the criteria Google set for a training dataset. GoogleOther typically discovers pages through external links, sitemaps, and seed lists rather than because someone selected your site individually.