Overview
Google Hotel Ads Prices is a marketing crawler from Google used for advertising quality review, contextual classification, brand-safety checks, and marketing intelligence.
Its primary user-agent pattern is Google-HotelAdsPrices; related patterns include Google Hotel Ads Prices; Hotel Ads price query bot.
Google Hotel Ads Prices is Verified from current authoritative identity documentation reviewed on 2026-08-07. The identity type is Official Documented.
Google Hotel Ads Prices is marked as respecting robots.txt directives for crawler access control.
Google Hotel Ads Prices should be reviewed against site policy, source evidence, crawl rate, and requested paths before a permanent allow or block rule is created.
Identity
- User-Agent Pattern
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Google-HotelAdsPrices - Aliases
- Google Hotel Ads Prices; Hotel Ads price query bot
- HTTP Agent Examples
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Google-HotelAdsPrices - Robots Token
- Google-HotelAdsPrices
- Identity Type
- Officially documented
- Evidence Method
- Match `Google-HotelAdsPrices` to the current operator documentation and corroborate the request with operator-controlled verification signals where available; User-Agent strings alone can be spoofed.
Classification
- Type
- Advertising
- Kind
- Advertising
- Family
- Purpose
- Hotel price querying
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- Google Hotel Ads Prices is used for advertising quality review, contextual classification, brand-safety checks, and marketing intelligence.
- Detection Notes
- Google Hotel Ads Prices traffic is primarily detected by the `Google-HotelAdsPrices` user-agent pattern; related patterns include `Google Hotel Ads Prices; Hotel Ads price query bot`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with Google infrastructure before trusting the traffic.
- Respects robots.txt
- Yes
- Spoofing Risk
- Google Hotel Ads Prices has medium spoofing risk because the user-agent can be copied, even when the bot has strong source or documentation support.
- Risk
- Neutral
- Recommended Handling
- Depends
Rules and controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
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User-agent: Google-HotelAdsPrices Disallow: /
Relationships
- Operator
- Google Checked 2026-08-07
Relationships without an Evidence link are normalized from the canonical directory record. They should not be interpreted as independent proof of physical presence or request origin.