GoogleOther

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googleother

Crawling preferences addressed to the GoogleOther user agent don't affect any specific product. GoogleOther is the generic crawler that may be used by various product teams for fetching publicly accessible content from sites. For example, it may be used for one-off crawls for internal research and development. It has no effect on Google Search or other products.

GoogleOther Crawl Traffic vs Googlebot

We're using Googlebot as a comparison baseline for a major internet bot. This chart shows GoogleOther traffic as a percentage of verified Googlebot traffic.