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 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
Google-Pinpoint
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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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
2026-05-20
Source type
Official
Verification
Verify as a Google fetcher using reverse DNS and Google's published user-triggered fetcher IP ranges.
IP ranges
https://developers.google.com/static/search/apis/ipranges/user-triggered-fetchers-google.json
Spoofing risk
User-agent strings for Google-Pinpoint 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

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.
  • Match `Google-Pinpoint` as a case-insensitive substring in HTTP user-agent logs. Review bot_aliases for alternate names or product labels. 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 Google-Pinpoint 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-user-triggered-fetchers

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
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

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
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

Similar purpose: Search

YandexUserproxy Safe

YandexUserproxy

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

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

YandexSearchShop

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

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

YandexCalendar

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

Operator and family: Yandex Type: Search
Verified robots.txt: No Block: Depends Official Documented
Qwantbot-news Safe

Qwantbot-news

Qwantbot-news is a search crawler from Qwant used for search indexing, page discovery, or content rendering.

Operator and family: Qwant Type: Search
Verified robots.txt: Yes Block: Depends Official Documented

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