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# GoogleOther

> GoogleOther is an other bot run by Google. A generic Google crawler that product teams may use to fetch public content, for example one-off crawls for internal research and development. Google says rules for it do not affect any specific product.

- Operator: Google
- Kind: Other bot
- robots.txt token: GoogleOther, GoogleOther-Image, GoogleOther-Video
- Follows robots.txt: yes
- Source: https://developers.google.com/crawling/docs/crawlers-fetchers/google-common-crawlers (checked 2026-11-05)
- Page: https://invisit.dev/bots/google-other

## What is GoogleOther?

A generic Google crawler that product teams may use to fetch public content, for example one-off crawls for internal research and development. Google says rules for it do not affect any specific product.

A bot that fits none of the groups above, such as an ad review crawler.

GoogleOther-Image and GoogleOther-Video also follow rules written for GoogleOther.

- [Google’s documentation](https://developers.google.com/crawling/docs/crawlers-fetchers/google-common-crawlers)

## GoogleOther user agent

Google documents these user agents for GoogleOther. Version numbers in it change over time, so match on the name, not the whole string.

```
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; GoogleOther)
Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GoogleOther) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36
```

## Should you block GoogleOther?

It depends on what it does; read the operator’s page below.

## How to block GoogleOther in robots.txt

Add a group for its tokens to robots.txt at the root of your site.

A bot follows only the group that names it, so it ignores your `User-agent: *` rules once it has a group of its own. Repeat any paths you also want kept from it there.

```
User-agent: GoogleOther
User-agent: GoogleOther-Image
User-agent: GoogleOther-Video
Disallow: /
```

- [Build a robots.txt for AI bots](https://invisit.dev/tools/robots-txt-generator)

## How to verify a request is really GoogleOther

Anyone can send any user agent, so the string alone proves nothing.

Google publishes the IP ranges GoogleOther crawls from. A request that claims to be GoogleOther from any other address is not GoogleOther.

Or check by reverse DNS: look up the hostname of the request’s IP, confirm it ends in `googlebot.com`, then look that hostname up again and confirm it points back to the same IP.

- [GoogleOther IP ranges](https://developers.google.com/static/crawling/ipranges/common-crawlers.json)

## See when GoogleOther reads your site

Bots don’t run JavaScript analytics, so a script tag never sees them. invisit records crawler reads on the server instead, through its server SDK or a Cloudflare Worker, and shows which bots read which pages, next to your visitors.

- [Track crawlers with invisit](https://invisit.dev/docs/server/sdk#crawler-reads)

## Common questions

### What is GoogleOther?

GoogleOther is an other bot run by Google. A generic Google crawler that product teams may use to fetch public content, for example one-off crawls for internal research and development. Google says rules for it do not affect any specific product.

### Is GoogleOther safe to block?

It depends on what it does; read the operator’s page below.

### How do I block GoogleOther?

Add “User-agent: GoogleOther” followed by “Disallow: /” to your robots.txt.