GoogleOther
by Google
Collects pages in bulk to train a model, unconnected to any individual user's question.
Generic Google crawler used by product teams for public content fetches, including research and development.
What it usually means
Google fetched this page for a general-purpose or research crawl not tied to Search ranking.
How to identify it
googleother User-agent: GoogleOther How it's verified
- https://developers.google.com/static/crawling/ipranges/common-crawlers.json
- https://developers.google.com/static/crawling/ipranges/special-crawlers.json
- https://developers.google.com/static/crawling/ipranges/user-triggered-fetchers.json
- https://developers.google.com/static/crawling/ipranges/user-triggered-fetchers-google.json
- https://developers.google.com/static/crawling/ipranges/user-triggered-agents.json
2001:4860:4801:10::/642001:4860:4801:11::/642001:4860:4801:12::/642001:4860:4801:13::/642001:4860:4801:14::/642001:4860:4801:15::/642001:4860:4801:16::/642001:4860:4801:17::/642001:4860:4801:18::/642001:4860:4801:19::/64 5 IP sources configured
Sources
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