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# Storebot-Google

> Storebot-Google is a search engine crawler run by Google. It crawls pages for every surface of Google Shopping, such as the Shopping tab in Google Search.

- Operator: Google
- Kind: Search engine crawler
- robots.txt token: Storebot-Google
- 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/storebot-google

## What is Storebot-Google?

It crawls pages for every surface of Google Shopping, such as the Shopping tab in Google Search.

Crawls pages for a classic search index. Blocking it removes you from that search engine.

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

## Storebot-Google user agent

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

```
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; Storebot-Google/1.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 8.0; Pixel 2 Build/OPD3.170816.012; Storebot-Google/1.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Mobile Safari/537.36
```

## Should you block Storebot-Google?

Allow it unless you want out of that search engine. Blocking a major search crawler removes your pages from its results.

## How to block Storebot-Google in robots.txt

Add a group for its token 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: Storebot-Google
Disallow: /
```

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

## How to verify a request is really Storebot-Google

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

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

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.

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

## See when Storebot-Google 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 Storebot-Google?

Storebot-Google is a search engine crawler run by Google. It crawls pages for every surface of Google Shopping, such as the Shopping tab in Google Search.

### Is Storebot-Google safe to block?

Allow it unless you want out of that search engine. Blocking a major search crawler removes your pages from its results.

### How do I block Storebot-Google?

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