Google Desktop
Google Desktop search application
About this crawler
Google Desktop is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Google Desktop in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as search-engine. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Google Desktop traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
1.2%
Technical details
- Name
- Google Desktop
- Pattern
Google Desktop- Tags
- search-engine
- Reference
- http://desktop.google.com/
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Google Desktop/5.9.1005.12335; http://desktop.google.com/)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Google Desktop:
User-agent: Google Desktop
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Google Desktop [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Google Desktop") {
return 403;
}
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