What is GoogleOther?

Google · AI training · class ai

Generic Google crawler for research and development, including one-off and AI uses. Not Search.

Verdict: Charge it or block it. It does not pay yet.

Profile

Compiled by Crawler Atlas from the operator's published documentation. Not yet declared by the operator. JSON

Operator	Google · developers.google.com
Purpose	AI training crawlers. Collect pages to train models. Bulk, periodic, and the ones most owners want to charge or block.
User-agent contains	`googleother`
robots.txt	`User-agent: GoogleOther` `Disallow: /`
How to verify	Reverse DNS on the client address must end in `.googlebot.com, .google.com` and resolve forward to the same address. The operator publishes its address ranges: developers.google.com. A request that claims this name from an address outside these is an impostor.
Should you block it?	Charge it or block it. It does not pay yet.
Does it pay?	No. It does not carry a wallet and cannot answer a 402. A site that charges simply serves it nothing.
Docs	https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/overview-google-crawlers

Anonymous daily counts from sites running Pay-per-Crawl that opted in, plus the ForgeMesh fleet. Last 7 days. Small sample: 1 sites reporting.

No sightings reported yet. GoogleOther appears here the day an opted-in site sees it.

See it in your own logs, verify it, and charge, allow or block it by name with the free Pay-per-Crawl plugin (WordPress, Python, JavaScript, Go, PHP).
Run this crawler? Publish a crawler-profile.json on your domain and this page shows your declared profile with a verified badge.
Machine-readable twin: /bots/googleother/profile.json (free in a browser). Machines: POST {"slug":"googleother"} to x402.forgemesh.io/bot-profiles, $0.005 per call over x402.

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