# 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.

- 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
- Source: https://developers.google.com/crawling/docs/crawlers-fetchers/google-common-crawlers (retrieved 2026-10-18)

## JSON

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

## Check this token

tools/call with name check_robots is the same check at https://whosthatbot.com/mcp. Send `Content-Type: application/json` and `Accept: application/json, text/event-stream`. 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: /.

Each card paraphrases the linked vendor page and was checked on source.retrieved. This is not legal advice. robots.txt is a request from the site owner. Botcard does not fetch third-party sites and does not suggest ways around a disallow rule.