Does GoogleOther respect robots.txt?

Yes. The operator documents that GoogleOther reads robots.txt and follows Disallow rules for its own token. Rules take effect on the next fetch of the file, which can be hours or days after you publish them.

How do I block GoogleOther?

Add the GoogleOther token to robots.txt with Disallow: /. If the crawler ignores robots.txt, match the user agent at your CDN or reverse proxy and return 403 there instead.

IPScanner

AI search crawlers

GoogleOther

GoogleOther is a bot operated by Google that indexes pages so an AI answer engine can cite them. "Used by various product teams for fetching publicly accessible content from sites. It honours robots.txt, and a request claiming to be GoogleOther can be checked against a published IP range file or a forward-confirmed reverse DNS lookup.

GoogleOther at a glance

Reference data for the GoogleOther crawler
User agent	`GoogleOther` Token only. The operator has not published a full user-agent string, so match on the substring rather than an exact header.
Operator	Google
Purpose	Scrapes data.
Respects robots.txt	Yes, documentedsource
Verification method	Published IP ranges or reverse DNS Listed in Google's special-crawlers range file, and reverse DNS resolves under googlebot.com. Used by internal Google teams for one-off crawls rather than by Search indexing. https://developers.google.com/static/search/apis/ipranges/special-crawlers.json
Crawl pattern	Not published
Robots.txt tokens	`GoogleOther`
Operator documentation	https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/overview-google-crawlers

"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."

robots.txt

Allow or block GoogleOther

Paste one of these into the robots.txt file at the root of your domain. Rules are per token, so a block on one crawler leaves every other bot untouched.

Block GoogleOther

User-agent: GoogleOther
Disallow: /

Blocks every path for this crawler only.

Allow GoogleOther

User-agent: GoogleOther
Allow: /

Explicit allow. Useful when a wildcard rule above it would otherwise catch this crawler.

Allow, except the pages you never want quoted

User-agent: GoogleOther
Allow: /
Disallow: /account/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /search

Edit the Disallow paths to match your own account, checkout and search URLs.

What blocking actually costs you

Blocking GoogleOther takes the site out of the index behind its answers, so it stops being cited there. If referral traffic from AI answers matters to you, block the training crawler instead and leave this one alone.

Block every crawler in the directory at once

Verification

Is that really GoogleOther?

A user-agent header is a string the client chooses. Scrapers copy GoogleOther precisely because site owners allow it. Listed in Google's special-crawlers range file, and reverse DNS resolves under googlebot.com. Used by internal Google teams for one-off crawls rather than by Search indexing.

Paste the IP address from your access log below. You will see whether it belongs to a hosting provider, a residential proxy pool or a Tor exit, plus the ASN that announces it, which is what tells you whether the claim holds up.

Datacenter IP detectionNearly every real AI crawler egresses from cloud ranges. A residential IP claiming to be one is the first thing to check.IP reputation checkSee whether the address behind a fake crawler hit has a history of abuse elsewhere.Residential proxy detectionScrapers that get blocked by user agent often come back through residential proxy pools.

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Agentscan

Identify crawlers automatically instead of by hand

Agentscan checks a request against published crawler ranges, reverse DNS and hosting data, then returns a verdict your edge can act on. One call per request, no range files to keep up to date.

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