`GoogleOther`

Safe to blockverified against vendor docs 2026-08-27 · re-checked weekly

Generic Google crawler used by various product teams; blocking it affects no specific product.

The verdict

Blocking GoogleOther is safe for visibility — it affects model training only, not whether your store appears in answers.

robots.txt

To allow

User-agent: GoogleOther
Allow: /

To block

User-agent: GoogleOther
Disallow: /

Questions this page answers

What is GoogleOther?

GoogleOther is Google's crawler token. Generic Google crawler used by various product teams; blocking it affects no specific product. Source: the vendor's own crawler documentation (https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/google-common-crawlers), last re-verified 2026-08-27.

Does blocking GoogleOther in robots.txt hurt my store's AI visibility?

Blocking GoogleOther is safe for visibility — it affects model training only, not whether your store appears in answers.

Primary source: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/google-common-crawlers — every Shelfgrade rule links the vendor doc it derives from, re-verified weekly.

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