GoogleOther

What is GoogleOther?

About

GoogleOther is Google's generic crawler used by various product teams for fetching publicly accessible content, including one-off crawls for internal research and development. You can see how often GoogleOther visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors Agent Analytics.

Expected Behavior

It's generally unclear how AI data scrapers choose which websites to crawl and how often to crawl them. They might choose to visits websites with a higher information density more frequently, depending on the type of AI models they're training. For example, it would make sense that an agent training an LLM (Large Language Model) would favor sites with a lot of regularly updating text content.

Type

AI Data Scraper
Downloads web content to train AI models

Detail

Operated By Google
Last Updated 1 day ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

2%
2% of top websites are blocking GoogleOther
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Country of Origin

United States
GoogleOther normally visits from the United States

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from AI Data Scrapers

Top Visited Website Categories

Jobs and Education
Beauty and Fitness
Arts and Entertainment
News
Travel and Transportation
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Robots.txt

Should I Block GoogleOther?

It's up to you. AI data scrapers usually download publicly available internet content, which is freely accessible by default. However, you might want to block them if you're concerned about attribution or how your creative work could be used in the resulting AI model.

How Do I Block GoogleOther?

You can block GoogleOther 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.

How Do I Block All AI Data Scrapers?
Serve a continuously updating robots.txt that blocks new AI data scrapers automatically.
Set Up Automatic Robots.txt
User Agent String Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/138.0.7204.183 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; GoogleOther) 
# In your robots.txt ...

User-agent: GoogleOther # https://darkvisitors.com/agents/googleother
Disallow: /

⚠️ Manual Robots.txt Editing Is Not Scalable

New agents are created every day. We recommend setting up Dark Visitors Automatic Robots.txt if you want to block all agents of this type.

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