Google-Safety

Operated by Google. Last seen today.

What is Google-Safety?

About

Google-Safety is an intelligence gatherer operated by Google. It's not currently known to be artificially intelligent or AI-related. If you think that's incorrect or can provide more detail about its purpose, please contact us.

Detail

Website

http://google.com/bot.html

Type

Intelligence Gatherer

Searches for useful insights

Expected Behavior

The behavior of Intelligence Gatherers depends on the goals of their clients. For example, a client might be interested in brand sentiment, in which case the agent would crawl related social media or blog posts at a more frequent rate than unrelated websites.

Insights

Other Websites

of top websites are currently blocking Google-Safety in some way

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Access Control

Should I Block Google-Safety?

Probably not, especially if you benefit from an intelligence gathering service yourself. However, you might choose to block them if you're concerned about things like server resource usage.

Using Robots.txt

User Agent Token	Description
`Google-Safety`	Should match instances of Google-Safety

You can block Google-Safety or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt.

# robots.txt
# This blocks Google-Safety

User-agent: Google-Safety
Disallow: /

Instead of doing this manually, you can generate your robots.txt automatically using the free API or Wordpress plugin.

Get the Robots.txt