Googlebot-Desktop

Neutral Block: No Verified robots.txt: Yes

Google desktop web crawler that indexes desktop versions of web pages.

Key facts

Operator
Google
Family
Google
Purpose
Indexing
User-Agent
Googlebot-Desktop
Should you block it?
No
Verified
Yes
Respects robots.txt
Yes
Identity type
Unknown
Confidence
Unknown

Bot details

Identity

User-Agent
Googlebot-Desktop
robots.txt token
Googlebot-Desktop
HTTP user-agent
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
Aliases
Google Desktop Bot

Ownership

Operator
Google
Family
Google
Type
Search
Purpose
Indexing

Verification and trust

Source type
Unknown
Confidence
Unknown
Verification
Verify the exact user-agent together with the published IP ranges at https://developers.google.com/static/search/apis/ipranges/googlebot.json.

Blocking and detection

Robots

User-agent: Googlebot-Desktop
Disallow: /

Cloudflare

(http.user_agent contains "Googlebot-Desktop")
Advanced server rules

Apache

RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Googlebot\-Desktop [NC]
RewriteRule ^ - [F,L]

Nginx

if ($http_user_agent ~* "Googlebot-Desktop") { return 403; }

Notes

Google desktop web crawler that indexes desktop versions of web pages.

Googlebot-Desktop is operated by Google. Botcrawl classifies it as a search bot with a primary purpose of indexing.

Key profile signals: risk level: neutral; robots.txt: yes; verified: yes.

Verify the exact user-agent together with the published IP ranges at https://developers.google.com/static/search/apis/ipranges/googlebot.json.

Published IP range data is available for this bot at https://developers.google.com/static/search/apis/ipranges/googlebot.json.

Source documentation: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/googlebot

Evidence and source

  • Verify the exact user-agent together with the published IP ranges at https://developers.google.com/static/search/apis/ipranges/googlebot.json.