Bot intelligence record

GoogleOther-Image

Review first

Use the GoogleOther-Image identifier to separate Google AI crawler, assistant, or AI search traffic from normal visitor requests in server logs.

Ai Ai Training Official Documented Confidence: High Verified: Yes robots.txt: Yes

User-Agent Pattern

Google
GoogleOther-Image

Robots.txt Snippet

Copy-ready 
User-agent: GoogleOther Disallow: /

Handling Guidance

Depends

Use this record as bot intelligence, then verify the request source and behavior before allowing, blocking, or rate limiting.

AI crawling, assistant retrieval, AI search, or model-supporting discovery depending on the user-agent.

Record Details

Structured data
Operator
Google
Family
Google
Type
Ai
Purpose
Ai Training
Identity type
Official Documented
Confidence
High
Last verified
2026-04-01
Last checked
2026-04-30
Source type
Official

Notes

GoogleOther-Image is listed in the Botcrawl directory as an AI crawler from Google. The primary identifier for log review is GoogleOther-Image.

Identification

  • User-agent pattern: GoogleOther-Image
  • Family: Google
  • Type: AI
  • Kind: Crawler

Common use

AI crawling, assistant retrieval, AI search, or model-supporting discovery depending on the user-agent.

Verification and handling

Use Google's official crawler verification guidance because user-agent strings can be spoofed.

Directory guidance marks the risk level as Neutral 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: Yes.

Evidence and Source

  • Use Google's official crawler verification guidance because user-agent strings can be spoofed.
  • AI crawling, assistant retrieval, AI search, or model-supporting discovery depending on the user-agent.

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

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.

Google Google Security Security
Verified robots.txt: No Block: No Verified Bot
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.

Google Google Search 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.

Google Google Preview Preview
Verified robots.txt: No 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.

Google Google Ai Ai Training
Verified robots.txt: Yes Block: Depends Official Documented

Same operator: Google

Google-CWS Neutral

Google-CWS

Google-CWS is a search crawler from Google used for search indexing, page discovery, or content rendering.

Google Google Search Search
Verified robots.txt: No Block: Depends Official Documented
Google-Display-Ads-Bot Neutral

Google-Display-Ads-Bot

Google AdSense uses a crawler called Google-Display-Ads-Bot to verify your site when you add a site to AdSense.

Google Google Search Indexing
Verified robots.txt: Yes Block: Depends Verified Bot
Google-Extended Safe

Google-Extended

Google-Extended is an AI control token from Google used for AI-related crawling, retrieval, search, or assistant activity.

Google Google Ai Ai Assistant
Verified robots.txt: Yes Block: Depends Official Documented
Google-NotebookLM Neutral

Google-NotebookLM

Google-NotebookLM is an AI fetcher from Google used for AI-related crawling, retrieval, search, or assistant activity.

Google Google Ai Ai Assistant
Verified robots.txt: No Block: Depends Official Documented

Similar purpose: Ai Training

cohere-ai Neutral

cohere-ai

cohere-ai is a search crawler from Cohere used for search indexing, page discovery, or content rendering.

Cohere Cohere Search Ai Training
Verified robots.txt: Unknown Block: Depends Verified Bot
cohere-training-data-crawler Neutral

cohere-training-data-crawler

cohere-training-data-crawler is a search crawler from Cohere used for search indexing, page discovery, or content rendering.

Cohere Cohere Search Ai Training
Verified robots.txt: Unknown Block: Depends Verified Bot
WordPress Neutral

WordPress Namecheap

This is the major egress IP for our containerised WordPress platform so it is likely to be many flavours of WordPress and the potential to be any domain.

namecheap namecheap Ai Ai Training
Verified robots.txt: No Block: Depends Verified Bot
vercel-build-container Neutral

Vercel build container

Vercel build container is an AI crawler from Vercel used for AI-related crawling, retrieval, search, or assistant activity.

Vercel Vercel Ai Ai Training
Verified robots.txt: Unknown Block: Depends Verified Bot

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