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.
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| Example User Agent | Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/153.0.8010.52 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; GoogleOther) |
| Operated By | |
| Source | Official Website |
| Identity |
Verified
Verified Identification
Requests claiming to be this agent can be authenticated using its published verification method. |
| Triggered By | Automated crawl |
| Used for AI Model Training | Yes |
| Affects AI Chat & Search Visibility | Not directly |
| Expected To Follow Robots.txt | Yes |
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.
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, 10% of the top websites we track currently have robots.txt rules for GoogleOther.
How Do I Block GoogleOther Using 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 October 30, 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 Compliance
Country of Origin
Robots.txt Blocked Percentage
Frequently Asked Questions
What Traffic Patterns Should I Expect From GoogleOther?
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.
Does GoogleOther Follow Robots.txt Rules?
GoogleOther is expected to follow robots.txt rules, so a disallow rule is the appropriate first step if you want to block it. Automatic Robots.txt can add and maintain that rule, while Agent Analytics lets you verify whether GoogleOther respects it.
Is GoogleOther Used for AI Model Training?
Yes. GoogleOther collects web content for use in AI training datasets. Blocking it limits future collection but cannot remove content that was collected previously.
Does Blocking GoogleOther Affect AI Search or Citations?
Not directly. Blocking GoogleOther limits collection for AI training rather than controlling a live AI search index or citation system.
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 Verify a Request From GoogleOther?
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.
How Is GoogleOther Different From Other Google Agents?
Google operates separate agents for different purposes, so each agent should be evaluated and controlled independently.
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