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`GoogleOther-Image`

GoogleOther-Image is the training crawler run by Google: Google common crawler, public image URLs. Its operator publishes the IP ranges it crawls from (https://developers.google.com/static/crawling/ipranges/common-crawlers.json), so a request carrying the name can be checked against that list.

User-agent token	`GoogleOther-Image`
Operator	Google
What it does	Google common crawler, public image URLs
Kind	training crawler
Can a request be verified?	Yes — published ip feed
Verification source	https://developers.google.com/static/crawling/ipranges/common-crawlers.json
In a CrawlCheck scan	Read from robots.txt; reported, never scored

Allow or block it in robots.txt

User-agent: GoogleOther-Image
Disallow: /

User-agent: GoogleOther-Image
Allow: /

Add a group that names it: "User-agent: GoogleOther-Image" followed by "Disallow: /". A crawler follows only the most specific group that names it, so once a group names GoogleOther-Image, rules under "User-agent: *" no longer apply to it; repeat in that group any Disallow lines you still want.

What blocking it changes

No. It collects pages for training. Refusing it is a policy choice about training, separate from whether answer engines can reach, read and quote the site.

Other agents from Google

Google-CloudVertexBot — Vertex AI grounding
Googlebot — Google Search / AI Overviews
Google-Extended — Gemini training
Googlebot-Image — Google image crawler
Googlebot-News — Google News
Googlebot-Video — Google video crawler
Storebot-Google — Google Shopping
Mediapartners-Google — Google AdSense
APIs-Google — Google push delivery
GoogleOther — Google non-search fetch
AdsBot-Google — Google Ads quality
Gemini-Deep-Research — Gemini research agent
Google-Agent — Google user-triggered agent, acts on the web
Google-GeminiNotebook — Gemini Notebook user-supplied URL fetch
GoogleOther-Video — Google common crawler, public video URLs

See what GoogleOther-Image and every other named agent receive from your own site: run a free scan. The full catalogue is on AI crawlers and as JSON at /ai-crawlers.json.

Questions about GoogleOther-Image

QHow do I block GoogleOther-Image in robots.txt?

QHow can I tell if a request from GoogleOther-Image is real?

Its operator publishes the IP ranges it crawls from (https://developers.google.com/static/crawling/ipranges/common-crawlers.json), so a request carrying the name can be checked against that list.

QDoes blocking GoogleOther-Image affect whether my site appears in AI answers?

No. It collects pages for training. Refusing it is a policy choice about training, separate from whether answer engines can reach, read and quote the site.

QDoes CrawlCheck test my site as GoogleOther-Image?

Not as a request. CrawlCheck reads the rules your robots.txt sets for GoogleOther-Image and reports them. Rules for it are reported and never scored, because refusing it is a policy choice.