Every AI bot · Google

googleother

A name associated with Google whose purpose hasn't been clearly documented.

In robots.txt: User-agent: googleother

Named by1.4%of readable robots.txt files on the top 1M (8,410 of 600,979)

Of those, block it38.3%shut it out of the whole site (3,224 of 8,410)

Same sites, since CC-MAIN-2026-34+0.0 ptsshare of the same 394,690 sites that block it by name: 0.4% → 0.4%

Via Cloudflare's file1.9%of its blocks come from Cloudflare's ready-made robots.txt (62 of 3,224)

38.3%

47.1%

14.6%

Block the whole site: 3,224Block some paths: 3,960Name it but allow it: 1,226

Every robots.txt file on the top 1M that names googleother, by what the rules that apply to it say.

Google's other bots

Sites often treat one company's bots differently, depending on what each is for.

Bot	Purpose	Files naming it	Of those, block it
Google-Extended	Collects pages to train AI	62,050	72.3%

Who does what

The highest-ranked sites on the top million in each group. Click one to see its whole robots.txt verdict.

Block it

Block some paths

Name it and allow it

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What this means for you: its purpose isn't documented, so what blocking it changes is unclear. Decide each bot on what it's for, not who runs it.