`GoogleOther`

Google says GoogleOther does not affect a specific product. It is the generic crawler product teams may use to fetch publicly accessible content, including one-off crawls for internal research and development. The page lists only the token GoogleOther. A group named Google does not match. This check matches the whole token and still reports the RFC 9309 decision. Common crawlers obey robots.txt on automatic crawls.

robots.txt token: GoogleOther
Operator: Google
Kind: other
robots.txt: obeys. The vendor says this crawler obeys robots.txt on automatic crawls.
HTTP user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; GoogleOther) The page prints this mobile string and a desktop string: Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GoogleOther) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36. Chrome/W.X.Y.Z is the page's placeholder for the Chrome version. The robots.txt token is GoogleOther. The page does not list a second token on this row. A group named Google does not match.
IP list: https://developers.google.com/static/crawling/ipranges/common-crawlers.json The common crawlers page says these crawlers generally crawl from this list, and that a user-agent string can be spoofed. Verify with reverse DNS before trusting an IP. The page's hostname mask is crawl-***-***-***-***.googlebot.com or geo-crawl-***-***-***-***.geo.googlebot.com. URL returned HTTP 200 on 2026-10-18. Botcard does not copy the list.
Source: List of Google's common crawlers. Retrieved 2026-10-18, page says updated 2026-10-15. CC BY 4.0 (Google Developers page, except as that page notes).

JSON

curl -s https://whosthatbot.com/v1/crawlers/googleother

Check this token

tools/call with name check_robots is the same check at POST /mcp. The pasted file disallows GoogleOther on /docs and allows *. The call does not fetch a host.

curl -s https://whosthatbot.com/mcp -H 'content-type: application/json' -H 'accept: application/json, text/event-stream' -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"check_robots","arguments":{"robots_txt":"User-agent: GoogleOther\nDisallow: /\n\nUser-agent: *\nAllow: /\n","path":"/docs","ids":["googleother"]}}}'

That call returns fetched_target false. This row is disallow via group GoogleOther, rule Disallow: /.