Bot intelligence record

Google-Pinpoint

Usually allow

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

Search Search Official Documented Confidence: High Verified: Yes robots.txt: No

User-Agent Pattern

Google
Google-Pinpoint

Robots.txt Snippet

Copy-ready 
No general robots.txt block is guaranteed; this is a user-triggered fetcher and may require server-side access controls.

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
Search
Identity type
Official Documented
Confidence
High
Last verified
2026-04-01
Last checked
2026-04-30
Source type
Official

Notes

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

Identification

  • User-agent pattern: Google-Pinpoint
  • Family: Google
  • Type: Search
  • Kind: Fetcher

Common use

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

Verification and handling

Verify as a Google fetcher using reverse DNS and Google's published user-triggered fetcher 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 fetcher using reverse DNS and Google's published user-triggered fetcher IP ranges.
  • Search indexing, content discovery, rendering, or search-result freshness checks.

https://developers.google.com/crawling/docs/crawlers-fetchers/google-user-triggered-fetchers

Same family: Google

ProjectShield-UrlCheck Safe

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GoogleOther-Video Neutral

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Verified robots.txt: Yes Block: Depends Official Documented
GoogleOther Neutral

GoogleOther

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Verified robots.txt: Yes Block: Depends Official Documented
GoogleOther-Image Neutral

GoogleOther-Image

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Verified robots.txt: Yes Block: Depends Official Documented

Same operator: Google

GoogleMessages Safe

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Verified robots.txt: No Block: Depends Official Documented
Googlebot-News Safe

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Verified robots.txt: Yes Block: Depends Official Documented
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Verified robots.txt: Yes Block: Depends Official Documented
Google-CWS Neutral

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Verified robots.txt: No Block: Depends Official Documented

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YandexUserproxy Safe

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Verified robots.txt: No Block: Depends Official Documented
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Verified robots.txt: No Block: Depends Official Documented
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Verified robots.txt: No Block: Depends Official Documented
Qwantbot-news Safe

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Verified robots.txt: Yes Block: Depends Official Documented

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