Overview
GoogleOther-Video is an AI training crawler from Google used for AI model training, dataset discovery, and collection of public web content for model-development pipelines.
Its primary user-agent pattern is GoogleOther-Video; a representative HTTP user-agent is GoogleOther-Video/1.0.
GoogleOther-Video is verified with High confidence. The identity type is Official Documented, and the evidence basis is official operator documentation.
GoogleOther-Video is marked as respecting robots.txt directives for crawler access control.
GoogleOther-Video should be handled according to the site owner’s AI crawler policy, with allow, block, or rate-limit rules applied deliberately.
Identity
- User-Agent Pattern
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GoogleOther-Video - HTTP Agent Examples
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GoogleOther-Video/1.0 - Robots Token
- GoogleOther-Video
- Identity Type
- Officially documented
- Evidence Method
- Verify GoogleOther-Video by matching `GoogleOther-Video` to Google evidence, then checking reverse DNS, source-network ownership, signed request data, or published crawler documentation when available.
Classification
- Type
- AI
- Kind
- Crawler
- Family
- Purpose
- AI training
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- GoogleOther-Video is used for AI model training, dataset discovery, and collection of public web content for model-development pipelines.
- Detection Notes
- GoogleOther-Video traffic is primarily detected by the `GoogleOther-Video` user-agent pattern; a representative HTTP user-agent is `GoogleOther-Video/1.0`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with Google infrastructure before trusting the traffic.
- Respects robots.txt
- Yes
- Spoofing Risk
- GoogleOther-Video has medium spoofing risk because the user-agent can be copied, even when the bot has strong source or documentation support.
- Risk
- Neutral
- Recommended Handling
- Depends
Rules and controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
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User-agent: GoogleOther-Video Disallow: /
Relationships
- Operator
- Google Checked 2026-08-07
Relationships without an Evidence link are normalized from the canonical directory record. They should not be interpreted as independent proof of physical presence or request origin.