GoogleAgent-Mariner

What is GoogleAgent-Mariner?

About

GoogleAgent-Mariner is an AI agent created by Google that can use a web browser. It can intelligently navigate and interact with websites to complete multi-step tasks on behalf of a human user. You can see how often GoogleAgent-Mariner visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors agent analytics.

Expected Behavior

AI agents are autonomous, meaning they can operate with or without human supervision. They're specifically designed to browse websites exactly like a human would.

Type

AI Agent
Autonomously browses websites to complete tasks

Detail

Operated By Google
Last Updated 10 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

1%
1% of top websites are blocking GoogleAgent-Mariner
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Country of Origin

Unknown
GoogleAgent-Mariner has no known country of origin

Global Traffic

The percentage of all internet traffic coming from AI Agents

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Robots.txt

Should I Block GoogleAgent-Mariner?

Probably not. AI agents visit websites to complete tasks for human users, so blocking them will effectively block those users from being productive. This could lead to negative sentiment about your website. Not blocking AI agents will allow more human users to use your website as they choose.

How Do I Block GoogleAgent-Mariner?

⚠️ Manual Robots.txt Edits Are Not Scalable
New agents are created every day. Instead, serve a continuously updating robots.txt that blocks new agents automatically.

You can block GoogleAgent-Mariner or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt. Set up Dark Visitors agent analytics to check whether it's actually following them.

# robots.txt
# This should block GoogleAgent-Mariner

User-agent: GoogleAgent-Mariner
Disallow: /

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