Google

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Googlebot-IA Safe

Google Scholar

Google Scholar uses a bot to crawl and index scholarly literature from academic publishers, repositories, and university websites. This populates its academic search engine.

Operator and family: Google Type: Search Purpose: Indexing
Verified robots.txt: No Block: Depends Verified Bot
Google-Site-Verification Safe

Google Site Verification

Google Site Verification is a security scanner from Google used for security checks, malware review, or abuse prevention.

Operator and family: Google Type: Security
Verified robots.txt: No Block: No Verified Bot
Storebot-Google Neutral

Google StoreBot

The Google StoreBot is a search-engine-based program that automatically 'crawls' through web pages to gather and analyse data. Google uses crawlers that go through product pages and.

Operator and family: Google Type: Ecommerce
Verified robots.txt: No Block: Depends Verified Bot
Google-Trust-Services Safe

Google Trust Services (DCV Check)

Google Trust Services (DCV Check) is a security scanner from Google used for security checks, malware review, or abuse prevention.

Operator and family: Google Type: Security
Verified robots.txt: No Block: No Verified Bot
Googlebot-Video Safe

Google Videos

The Google Videos bot is the search engine crawler for Google Video Search.

Operator and family: Google Type: Search Purpose: Indexing
Verified robots.txt: No Block: Depends Verified Bot
Google-AdWords-Express Neutral

Google-AdWords-Express

Google-AdWords-Express is a bot for a Google Ads product aimed at small businesses. It crawls advertiser websites to assist with ad creation and to verify site information.

Operator and family: Google Type: Search Purpose: Indexing
Verified robots.txt: No Block: Depends Verified Bot
Google-Adwords-Instant Neutral

Google-Adwords-Instant

Google-Adwords-Instant is a bot connected to the Google Ads platform. It visits advertiser landing pages to perform verification and quality checks.

Operator and family: Google Type: Security
Verified robots.txt: No Block: Depends Verified Bot
Google-Agent Neutral

Google-Agent

Google-Agent is an AI fetcher from Google used for AI-related crawling, retrieval, search, or assistant activity.

Operator and family: Google Type: Ai Purpose: Ai Assistant
Verified robots.txt: No Block: Depends Official Documented
Google-CloudVertexBot Safe

Google-CloudVertexBot

Google-CloudVertexBot is an AI crawler from Google used for AI-related crawling, retrieval, search, or assistant activity.

Operator and family: Google Type: Ai Purpose: Ai Crawl
Verified robots.txt: Yes Block: Depends Official Documented
Google-CWS Neutral

Google-CWS

Google-CWS is a search crawler from Google used for search indexing, page discovery, or content rendering.

Operator and family: Google Type: Search
Verified robots.txt: No Block: Depends Official Documented
Google-Display-Ads-Bot Neutral

Google-Display-Ads-Bot

Google AdSense uses a crawler called Google-Display-Ads-Bot to verify your site when you add a site to AdSense.

Operator and family: Google Type: Search Purpose: Indexing
Verified robots.txt: Yes Block: Depends Verified Bot
Google-Extended Safe

Google-Extended

Google-Extended is an AI control token from Google used for AI-related crawling, retrieval, search, or assistant activity.

Operator and family: Google Type: Ai Purpose: Ai Assistant
Verified robots.txt: Yes Block: Depends Official Documented
Google-NotebookLM Neutral

Google-NotebookLM

Google-NotebookLM is an AI fetcher from Google used for AI-related crawling, retrieval, search, or assistant activity.

Operator and family: Google Type: Ai Purpose: Ai Assistant
Verified robots.txt: No Block: Depends Official Documented
Google-Pinpoint Safe

Google-Pinpoint

Google-Pinpoint is a search crawler from Google used for search indexing, page discovery, or content rendering.

Operator and family: Google Type: Search
Verified robots.txt: No Block: Depends Official Documented
Googlebot Safe

Googlebot

Googlebot is Google Search’s web crawler for discovering, rendering, and indexing web pages.

Operator and family: Google Type: Search Purpose: Indexing
Verified robots.txt: Yes Block: Depends Official Documented
Googlebot-News Safe

Googlebot-News

Googlebot-News is a search crawler from Google used for search indexing, page discovery, or content rendering.

Operator and family: Google Type: Search Purpose: Indexing
Verified robots.txt: Yes Block: Depends Official Documented
GoogleMessages Safe

GoogleMessages

GoogleMessages is a preview or prefetch bot from Google used to fetch pages for previews, unfurls, or user-triggered rendering.

Operator and family: Google Type: Preview
Verified robots.txt: No Block: Depends Official Documented
GoogleOther Neutral

GoogleOther

Generic crawler that may be used by various product teams for fetching publicly accessible content from sites. For example, it may be used for one-off crawls for internal research and.

Operator and family: Google Type: Search Purpose: Indexing
Verified robots.txt: Yes Block: Depends Official Documented
GoogleOther-Image Neutral

GoogleOther-Image

GoogleOther-Image is an AI crawler from Google used for AI-related crawling, retrieval, search, or assistant activity.

Operator and family: Google Type: Ai Purpose: Ai Training
Verified robots.txt: Yes Block: Depends Official Documented
GoogleOther-Video Neutral

GoogleOther-Video

GoogleOther-Video is an AI crawler from Google used for AI-related crawling, retrieval, search, or assistant activity.

Operator and family: Google Type: Ai Purpose: Ai Training
Verified robots.txt: Yes Block: Depends Official Documented
ProjectShield-UrlCheck Safe

ProjectShield Url Check

ProjectShield Url Check is a security scanner from Google used for security checks, malware review, or abuse prevention.

Operator and family: Google Type: Security
Verified robots.txt: No Block: No Verified Bot