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CRAWLER OPERATOR

Google crawlers.

Google runs 16 bots in this directory: Googlebot-Image, Googlebot-Video, Google-InspectionTool, Storebot-Google, GoogleOther-Image, GoogleOther-Video, GoogleOther, Google-CloudVertexBot, AdsBot-Google, Mediapartners-Google, Google-Agent, Google-Safety, Google user-triggered fetchers, Googlebot, Googlebot-News, Google-Extended. Each can be allowed or blocked on its own.

  • 16 bots
  • 14 can be verified
  • 3 for AI products
Google16 bots
  • VerifiableGooglebot-ImageSearch indexing
  • VerifiableGooglebot-VideoSearch indexing
  • VerifiableGoogle-InspectionToolSearch indexing
  • VerifiableStorebot-GoogleSearch indexing
  • VerifiableGoogleOther-ImageData collection

GOOGLE

Every Google bot.

Open a bot for its robots.txt rule, verification and documentation.

16 bots

GoogleVerifiable

AdsBot-Google

AdsBot-Google AdsBot-Google-Mobile

  • Advertising

Follows robots.txt

GoogleVerifiable

Google-Agent

No robots.txt token

  • Transactional agent
  • User-directed fetch

User-triggered

GoogleControl token

Google-Extended

Google-Extended

  • AI training

Follows robots.txt

GoogleVerifiable

Google-InspectionTool

Google-InspectionTool Googlebot

  • Search indexing

Follows robots.txt

GoogleVerifiable

Google-Safety

No robots.txt token

  • Security scanner

Ignores robots.txt

GoogleVerifiable

Googlebot

Googlebot

  • Search indexing

Follows robots.txt

GoogleVerifiable

Googlebot-Image

Googlebot-Image Googlebot

  • Search indexing

Follows robots.txt

GoogleControl token

Googlebot-News

Googlebot-News

  • Search indexing

Follows robots.txt

GoogleVerifiable

Googlebot-Video

Googlebot-Video Googlebot

  • Search indexing

Follows robots.txt

GoogleVerifiable

GoogleOther

GoogleOther

  • Data collection

Follows robots.txt

GoogleVerifiable

GoogleOther-Image

GoogleOther-Image GoogleOther

  • Data collection

Follows robots.txt

GoogleVerifiable

GoogleOther-Video

GoogleOther-Video GoogleOther

  • Data collection

Follows robots.txt

GoogleVerifiable

Storebot-Google

Storebot-Google

  • Search indexing

Follows robots.txt

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.