--- title: "What is GoogleOther? Google's Bot Explained | Kitbase" description: "Generic Google crawler used by product teams for public content fetches, including research and development." canonical: https://kitbase.dev/bot-directory/googleother --- [Home](/) [Bot Directory](/bot-directory) GoogleOther # GoogleOther by Google AI training AI UA + IP range 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 User-Agent tokens `googleother` robots.txt stanza `User-agent: GoogleOther` Free tools [Verify a GoogleOther request](/tools/bot-verifier?ua=googleother) [Check if your site allows GoogleOther](/tools/ai-crawler-access-checker) ## How it's verified Published IP-range endpoints - [https://developers.google.com/static/crawling/ipranges/common-crawlers.json](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/special-crawlers.json) - [https://developers.google.com/static/crawling/ipranges/user-triggered-fetchers.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-fetchers-google.json) - [https://developers.google.com/static/crawling/ipranges/user-triggered-agents.json](https://developers.google.com/static/crawling/ipranges/user-triggered-agents.json) Currently loaded ranges (sample) Refreshed Sep 4, 2026 `2001:4860:4801:10::/64``2001:4860:4801:11::/64``2001:4860:4801:12::/64``2001:4860:4801:13::/64``2001:4860:4801:14::/64``2001:4860:4801:15::/64``2001:4860:4801:16::/64``2001:4860:4801:17::/64``2001:4860:4801:18::/64``2001:4860:4801:19::/64` 5 IP sources configured [Google's page for GoogleOther](https://developers.google.com/crawling/docs/crawlers-fetchers/overview-google-crawlers) ## Sources - [Google crawler docs](https://developers.google.com/crawling/docs/crawlers-fetchers/overview-google-crawlers) ## More from Google [ Google-CloudVertexBot Google crawler for targeted crawls requested by site owners building Vertex AI agents. ](/bot-directory/google-cloudvertexbot)[ Google-InspectionTool Google crawler used by Search testing tools such as Rich Results Test and URL Inspection. ](/bot-directory/google-inspectiontool)[ Google-NotebookLM Google fetcher associated with NotebookLM-style answer workflows. ](/bot-directory/google-notebooklm)[ Google-Read-Aloud Google fetcher associated with read-aloud and assistant experiences. ](/bot-directory/google-read-aloud)[ Google-Agent Google user-triggered fetcher used by AI or product experiences. ](/bot-directory/google-agent)[ GoogleAgent Google user-triggered fetcher used by AI or product experiences. ](/bot-directory/googleagent)[ Googlebot Google's main crawler for Search indexing and discovery. ](/bot-directory/googlebot)[ Google-Extended Robots token controlling whether Google may use crawled content for Gemini training and grounding; not a separate HTTP crawler. ](/bot-directory/google-extended) ## Similar bots [ AI2Bot Allen AI AI2Bot is an AI-related crawler operated by Allen AI. ](/bot-directory/ai2bot)[ AliyunBot Alibaba AliyunBot is an AI-related crawler operated by Alibaba. ](/bot-directory/aliyunbot)[ Applebot-Extended Apple Robots token controlling whether Apple may use crawled content for Apple Intelligence training. ](/bot-directory/applebot-extended)[ Bytespider ByteDance ByteDance crawler collecting public content used to train its AI models. ](/bot-directory/bytespider) ## See if GoogleOther has visited your site Kitbase verifies and tracks bot and AI crawler traffic separately from human visitors, so you know exactly who's hitting your site. [Start Free Trial](https://app.kitbase.dev/signup)