Googlebot-News
Last seen referenced today.
What is Googlebot-News?
About
Googlebot-News is an uncategorized agent. 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.
Type
Uncategorized
Not currently assigned a type
Expected Behavior
Behavior will vary depending on whether this agent is a search engine crawler, data scraper, archiver, one-off fetcher, etc.
Insights
Other Websites
Access Control
Should I Block Googlebot-News?
It's difficult to say without a type. Its purposes could either be good or bad for your website, depending on what it is.
Using Robots.txt
| User Agent Token | Description |
|---|---|
Googlebot-News |
Should match instances of Googlebot-News |
You can block Googlebot-News or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt.
# robots.txt
# This blocks Googlebot-News
User-agent: Googlebot-News
Disallow: /