What is GoogleOther-Video?
GoogleOther-Video is Google's specialized GoogleOther crawler for fetching publicly accessible video URLs for various product teams. You can set up Agent Analytics to see when GoogleOther-Video visits your website.
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| Operated By | |
| Source | Official Website |
| 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-Video Visiting My Website?
Your content matched the criteria Google set for a training dataset. GoogleOther-Video typically discovers pages through external links, sitemaps, and seed lists rather than because someone selected your site individually.
Should I Block GoogleOther-Video?
Block GoogleOther-Video 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. Almost none of the top websites we track currently have robots.txt rules for GoogleOther-Video.
How Do I Block GoogleOther-Video Using Robots.txt?
Add this rule to your robots.txt file to block GoogleOther-Video 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-Video # https://knownagents.com/agents/googleother-video
Disallow: /Insights for GoogleOther-Video
As of November 10, 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
GoogleOther-Video Traffic
Frequently Asked Questions
What Traffic Patterns Should I Expect From GoogleOther-Video?
GoogleOther-Video 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-Video Follow Robots.txt Rules?
GoogleOther-Video 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-Video respects it.
Is GoogleOther-Video Used for AI Model Training?
Yes. GoogleOther-Video 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-Video Affect AI Search or Citations?
Not directly. Blocking GoogleOther-Video limits collection for AI training rather than controlling a live AI search index or citation system.
Does GoogleOther-Video Access Private Content?
Not through legitimate access. GoogleOther-Video 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-Video?
Agent Analytics tracks GoogleOther-Video visits in real time. You can also check your server logs for requests whose user-agent string contains "GoogleOther-Video". Look for high page counts, short gaps between requests, and deep traversal through linked content. Because GoogleOther-Video does not publish a verification method, any client can claim its identity and a log match is only a clue.
How Is GoogleOther-Video Different From Other Google Agents?
Google operates separate agents for different purposes, so each agent should be evaluated and controlled independently.
- Google-Agent: Google-Agent is used by agents hosted on Google infrastructure to navigate the web and perform actions upon user request.
- GoogleAgent-Mariner: GoogleAgent-Mariner is an AI agent created by Google that can use a web browser. It can intelligently navigate and interact with websites to complete multi-step tasks on …
- Gemini-Deep-Research: Gemini-Deep-Research is the agent responsible for collecting and scanning resources used in Google Gemini's Deep Research feature, which acts as a personal research assis…
- Google-GeminiNotebook: Google-GeminiNotebook fetches individual URLs that users add as sources in Gemini Notebook so Google can analyze and summarize their content.
- Google-NotebookLM: Google-NotebookLM is Google's former Gemini Notebook fetcher identifier that continues to retrieve source URLs users add to their notebooks.