OTHER AGENTS · GOOGLE

GoogleOther-Image

GoogleOther for image URLs: research and one-off crawls by Google teams, not Search.

Copy the robots.txt rule

All other agents

Follows robots.txt
Can be verified
Docs checked 28 Oct 2026

At a glanceGoogle

VerifiableIdentityIP ranges, reverse DNS
Obeysrobots.txtFollows robots.txt
PurposeData collectionNot an AI product
TokenGoogleOther-Image, GoogleOtherUse it in a User-agent line

robots.txt

The operator documents that this bot follows robots.txt rules.

Block GoogleOther-Image

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

Allow GoogleOther-Image

User-agent: GoogleOther-Image
User-agent: GoogleOther
Allow: /

Quick facts

robots.txt token: GoogleOther-Image GoogleOther
User agent contains: GoogleOther-Image
Operator: Google
Category: Other agents
Purpose: Data collection
robots.txt: Follows robots.txt
Verification: Can be verified
Documentation: developers.google.com · checked 28 Oct 2026

If you block it

Keeps your pages out of what this operator collects.

Check a visit is real

Published IP ranges: developers.google.com/static/crawling/ipranges/common-crawlers.json
Published IP ranges: developers.google.com/static/crawling/ipranges/special-crawlers.json
Published IP ranges: developers.google.com/static/crawling/ipranges/user-triggered-fetchers-google.json
Reverse DNS ending in googlebot.com or google.com, confirmed by forward DNS

Where this comes from

The same registry NdovuSEOLabs uses to classify crawler traffic in your server and CDN logs, built from the operator’s own documentation.

Registry version 2026-10-29.1

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