AI BOTS · GOOGLE
Google-Agent
Agents on Google infrastructure browsing and acting for a user. Google lists it with its user-triggered fetchers, which generally ignore robots.txt.
- Fetches when a person asks
- Can be verified
- Docs checked 28 Oct 2026
- VerifiableIdentityIP ranges
- User-ledrobots.txtFetches when a person asks
- PurposeTransactional agent, User-directed fetchFor an AI product
- TokenNo robots.txt tokenUse it in a User-agent line
robots.txt
It fetches a page because a person asked. The operator says robots.txt may not apply, so block it at the server or CDN if you need to.
It has no robots.txt token of its own. Control it at the server, firewall or CDN.
Quick facts
- User agent contains
- Google-Agent
- Operator
- Category
- AI bots
- Purpose
- Transactional agent, User-directed fetch
- robots.txt
- User-triggered
- Verification
- Can be verified
- Documentation
- developers.google.com · checked 28 Oct 2026
If you block it
Agents acting for a person, for example to book or buy, cannot use your site.
Check a visit is real
- Published IP ranges: developers.google.com/static/crawling/ipranges/user-triggered-agents.json
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
More from Google
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- Googlebot-VideoSearch indexing
- Google-InspectionToolSearch indexing
- Storebot-GoogleSearch indexing
- GoogleOther-ImageData collection
- GoogleOther-VideoData collection
- GoogleOtherData collection
- Google-CloudVertexBotData collection
- AdsBot-GoogleAdvertising
- Mediapartners-GoogleAdvertising
- Google-SafetySecurity scanner
- Google user-triggered fetchersFeed reader, User-directed fetch
- GooglebotSearch indexing
- Googlebot-NewsSearch indexing
- Google-ExtendedAI training
See which of these crawlers visit your site.
Crawl Analytics reads your own server and CDN logs and checks each claim against the operator’s published IP ranges and DNS.