Company
Google
Type
Training crawl
Obeys robots.txt
Yes
Announces itself as
GoogleOther
Official documentation
https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/google-common-crawlers
What it does
A general-purpose Google crawler used by various internal teams for research and development, including AI data collection, separate from core Search.
How Forge AI Bot Log checks it
Visits are checked by reverse DNS against Google's domains.
Should you block it?
Blocking it does not affect Google Search. Block it if you want to limit Google's non-search use of your pages. Blocking GoogleOther takes one switch in Forge AI Bot Log's Access Control screen. The plugin adds the rule to your robots.txt for you.