GoogleOther
Generic research and development crawler. Filed under training here because its output is not a search index.
- Class
- Training
- robots.txt
- Says it honours robots.txt
Proving it is real
- Check the IP against Google's Common crawlers file.
Blocking it
User-agent: GoogleOther
Disallow: /(http.user_agent contains "GoogleOther")if ($http_user_agent ~* "GoogleOther") {
return 403;
}Matching a name only blocks bots that tell the truth about it. Before you do this, read what each decision costs.
Last reviewed Nov 2, 2026