Google-Area120
Google Area 120 experimental tool fetching privacy policies from websites
About this crawler
Google-Area120 is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Google-Area120 in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as seo. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Google-Area120 traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
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Technical details
- Name
- Google-Area120
- Pattern
Google-Area120- Tags
- seo
- Reference
- https://area120.google.com/
- Added
- 2026/04/17
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Google-Area120-PrivacyPolicyFetcher
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Google-Area120:
User-agent: Google-Area120
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Google-Area120 [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Google-Area120") {
return 403;
}
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