Bot intelligence record

AdsBot-Google-Mobile

Usually allow

Use the AdsBot-Google-Mobile identifier to separate Google search indexing or content discovery traffic from normal visitor requests in server logs.

Search Indexing Official Documented Confidence: High Verified: Yes robots.txt: No
Operator
Google
Family
Google
Type
Search
Source type
Official
Last checked
2026-05-20

User-Agent Pattern

Google
AdsBot-Google-Mobile
Verification note

User-agent strings are identification signals, not proof of identity. Confirm important allow, block, or rate-limit decisions with logs, DNS or IP evidence, request behavior, or operator documentation when available.

Robots.txt Snippet

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User-agent: AdsBot-Google-Mobile Disallow: /

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Handling Guidance

Depends

This bot is usually safe to allow when the request source is verified and the traffic matches your site policy.

Search indexing, content discovery, rendering, or search-result freshness checks.

Record Details

Structured data
Operator
Google
Family
Google
Type
Search
Purpose
Indexing
Identity type
Official Documented
Confidence
High
Last verified
2026-04-01
Last checked
2026-05-20
Source type
Official
Verification
Verify as a Google crawler using reverse DNS and Google's published special-crawler IP ranges.
IP ranges
https://developers.google.com/static/search/apis/ipranges/special-crawlers.json
Spoofing risk
User-agent strings for AdsBot-Google-Mobile can be spoofed. Treat user-agent detection as a classification signal, then verify with published IP ranges, reverse DNS, signatures, operator documentation, or published operator documentation, IP ranges, reverse DNS, signatures, or other verified identity signals before allow-listing.

Notes

AdsBot-Google-Mobile is listed in the Botcrawl directory as a search crawler from Google. The primary identifier for log review is AdsBot-Google-Mobile.

Identification

  • User-agent pattern: AdsBot-Google-Mobile
  • Family: Google
  • Type: Search
  • Kind: Crawler

Common use

Search indexing, content discovery, rendering, or search-result freshness checks.

Verification and handling

Verify as a Google crawler using reverse DNS and Google's published special-crawler IP ranges.

Directory guidance marks the risk level as Safe and the blocking decision as Depends. Do not rely on the user-agent string alone because user-agent strings can be copied or spoofed.

Robots.txt handling: No.

Evidence and Source

  • Verify as a Google crawler using reverse DNS and Google's published special-crawler IP ranges.
  • Match `AdsBot-Google-Mobile` as a case-insensitive substring in HTTP user-agent logs. Review bot_aliases for alternate names or product labels. Use bot_http_agent for full user-agent examples when the client sends a longer browser-like string. Do not treat a user-agent match alone as proof of identity for allow-listing.
  • Search indexing, content discovery, rendering, or search-result freshness checks.
  • User-agent strings for AdsBot-Google-Mobile can be spoofed. Treat user-agent detection as a classification signal, then verify with published IP ranges, reverse DNS, signatures, operator documentation, or published operator documentation, IP ranges, reverse DNS, signatures, or other verified identity signals before allow-listing.

https://developers.google.com/crawling/docs/crawlers-fetchers/google-special-case-crawlers

Same family: Google

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
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
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

Same operator: Google

GoogleAgent-Mariner Neutral

GoogleAgent-Mariner

Claimed Google Project Mariner user-agent token for agentic browser activity.

Operator: Google Family: Google Mariner Type: Ai Purpose: Agentic Browsing
Not verified robots.txt: Unknown Block: Depends Observed
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

Similar purpose: Indexing

YouBot Safe

YouBot

YouBot is a search crawler associated with You.com, used for search indexing and content discovery.

Operator: You.com Family: YouBot Type: Search Purpose: Indexing
Verified robots.txt: No Block: Depends Verified Bot
ZoominfoBot Safe

ZoomInfo

Zoominfobot is an indexing robot for a web search engine, similar to Google. Created by Zoom Information Inc.(www.zoominfo.com), Zoominfobot’s patented technology continually scans millions.

Operator and family: ZoomInfo Type: Search Purpose: Indexing
Verified robots.txt: No Block: Depends Verified Bot
ZumBot Safe

ZumBot

ZumBot is a web crawler that indexes webpages for Zum Open Internet Search.

Operator and family: Zum Internet Corp Type: Search Purpose: Indexing
Verified robots.txt: No Block: Depends Verified Bot
YandexVerticals Safe

YandexVerticals

YandexVerticals is a search crawler from Yandex used for search indexing, page discovery, or content rendering.

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

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