GoogleOther
Google's other bots and services for various Google search features
About this crawler
GoogleOther is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern GoogleOther in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as search-engine. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block GoogleOther traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
1.6%
Technical details
- Name
- GoogleOther
- Pattern
GoogleOther- Tags
- search-engine
- Reference
- https://developers.google.com/crawling/docs/crawlers-fetchers/overview-google-crawlers
- rDNS suffixes
.1e100.net,.googlebot.com,.googleusercontent.com- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
rDNS verification (FCrDNS)
Verify a request is genuinely GoogleOther with forward-confirmed reverse DNS: the client IP's PTR record must end in one of the suffixes below and a forward A/AAAA lookup of that hostname must return the same IP. UA strings alone are spoofable; FCrDNS is not.
.1e100.net.googlebot.com.googleusercontent.com
Sample User-Agent strings
GoogleOther
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow GoogleOther:
User-agent: GoogleOther
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} GoogleOther [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "GoogleOther") {
return 403;
}
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