training crawlers
Google-CloudVertexBot
Operated by Google · Training crawlers
Google crawler used for targeted crawls requested by site owners building Vertex AI agents.
When Google-CloudVertexBot shows up in your logs
A site owner's Vertex AI agent requested a targeted crawl of your page.
Crawlers that collect public content that may be used to train or ground models.
Allow or block it in robots.txt
A robots.txt entry is a request. Well-behaved crawlers honor it; it is not an enforcement mechanism.
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