GoogleOther-Image

Neutral Block: Depends Verified robots.txt: Yes

GoogleOther image fetcher optimized for publicly accessible image URLs.

Fetches publicly accessible image URLs for GoogleOther workflows.

Key facts

Operator: Google
Family: Google
Purpose: Unknown
User-Agent: GoogleOther-Image
Should you block it?: Depends
Verified: Yes
Respects robots.txt: Yes
Identity type: Unknown
Confidence: High
Last checked: 2026-04-03

Bot details

Identity

User-Agent: GoogleOther-Image
robots.txt token: GoogleOther-Image
HTTP user-agent: GoogleOther-Image/1.0

Ownership

Operator: Google
Family: Google
Type: Scraper
Purpose: Unknown

Verification and trust

Source type: Unknown
Confidence: High
Last checked: 2026-04-03
Verification: Verify as Google crawler traffic using Google’s crawler verification guidance.
Operator URL: https://developers.google.com/crawling/docs/crawlers-fetchers/google-common-crawlers
Source URL: https://developers.google.com/crawling/docs/crawlers-fetchers/google-common-crawlers
Spoofing risk: User-agent strings can be spoofed. Verify with the operator’s published guidance before allow-listing.

Blocking and detection

Officially documented in Google’s common crawler list.

Robots

User-agent: GoogleOther-Image
Disallow: /

Cloudflare

(http.user_agent contains "GoogleOther-Image")

Advanced server rules

Apache

RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} GoogleOther-Image [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

Nginx

if ($http_user_agent ~* "GoogleOther-Image") { return 403; }

Notes

GoogleOther-Image is the image-oriented variant of GoogleOther, used for fetching publicly accessible image URLs for internal Google uses that do not affect Google Search or other products.

Evidence and source

Verify as Google crawler traffic using Google’s crawler verification guidance.
Officially documented in Google’s common crawler list.
Fetches publicly accessible image URLs for GoogleOther workflows.
User-agent strings can be spoofed. Verify with the operator’s published guidance before allow-listing.

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