training crawlers
GoogleOther
Operated by Google · Training crawlers
A catch-all Google crawler that product teams use to pull public pages for research and development.
When GoogleOther shows up in your logs
A Google team fetched your page for internal research or development, not for Search.
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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