Kuldeep Paul

Mixed / general · Google

GoogleOther

Google's generic crawler for internal teams' one-off and research crawls, separate from Search indexing.

Compiled by · Updated Oct 29, 2026

8.9%of top sites fully block GoogleOther
509sites blocking, of 5,701 with robots.txt
67of the top 1,000 block it
Operator
Google
Purpose
Mixed / general
Used for
Google internal research and development
Obeys robots.txt
Yes
robots.txt token
GoogleOther
User-agent string
Not published by the operator
IP list
Not published
Official docs
developers.google.com

Block GoogleOther in robots.txt

User-agent: GoogleOther
Disallow: /

Well-known sites that block GoogleOther

amazon.com #30, amazonvideo.com #85, msn.com #92, snapchat.com #157, cnn.com #195, medium.com #198, weather.com #250, nature.com #297, amazon.co.uk #326, amazon.de #387, indeed.com #420, amazon.co.jp #490, ft.com #552, wired.com #570, usatoday.com #617, telegraph.co.uk #629, amazon.fr #632, amazon.ca #633, 2gis.com #661, amazon.in #676, primevideo.com #678, sharethrough.com #681, lemonde.fr #700, amazon.es #714

Ranks from the Tranco list. Full per-site data in the robots.txt study.

Other Google bots

Google-Extended (model training) · Google-CloudVertexBot (ai agent) · Google-Agent (ai agent) · Googlebot (ai search index)

Questions

What is GoogleOther?

GoogleOther is a mixed / general bot operated by Google, used for Google internal research and development. Google's generic crawler for internal teams' one-off and research crawls, separate from Search indexing.

How do I block GoogleOther?

Add "User-agent: GoogleOther" followed by "Disallow: /" to the robots.txt file at the root of each host you want to protect.

Does GoogleOther respect robots.txt?

Yes. Google documents that GoogleOther honours robots.txt directives.

How many websites block GoogleOther?

In a Oct 29, 2026 analysis of the top 10,000 websites by Kuldeep Paul, 8.9% of sites with a robots.txt file fully disallowed GoogleOther.

Analysis using this data

  1. Who blocks AI crawlers? What 10,000 robots.txt files revealPublishers block training, not answers; half of all blocklists leak; Cloudflare writes the most common AI policy.
  2. The opt-out asymmetry: you can block the small AI engines, not the big oneThe AI surfaces with the most users are the ones publishers can't refuse and can't measure.

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How to cite this data

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In running text: according to Kuldeep Paul's GoogleOther — AI crawler directory (kuldeep.cc). More in the methodology.

APA

Paul, K. (2026). GoogleOther — AI crawler directory [Data set]. kuldeep.cc. https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/crawlers/googleother

MLA

Paul, Kuldeep. "GoogleOther — AI crawler directory." kuldeep.cc, 29 October 2026, https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/crawlers/googleother.

Chicago

Paul, Kuldeep. 2026. "GoogleOther — AI crawler directory." Dataset. kuldeep.cc. Updated Oct 29, 2026. https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/crawlers/googleother.

BibTeX

@misc{paul2026googleother, author = {Paul, Kuldeep}, title = {GoogleOther — AI crawler directory}, year = {2026}, howpublished = {\url{https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/crawlers/googleother}}, note = {Dataset, CC BY 4.0, updated 2026-10-29} }

HTML link

<a href="https://kuldeep.cc/data/ai-search/crawlers/googleother">GoogleOther — AI crawler directory</a> (data: Kuldeep Paul, kuldeep.cc)