GoogleOther-Image
GoogleOther-Image is blocked by 177 sites in the October 2026 survey, or 2.9% of readable files. The community reference lists its operator as Google.
Who runs GoogleOther-Image?
| Fact | GoogleOther-Image reference entry |
|---|---|
| Operator | “Google” |
| Purpose | “Scrapes data.” |
| Does GoogleOther-Image obey robots.txt? | “Yes” |
| Frequency | “No information.” |
| Cloudflare managed list for GoogleOther-Image | No |
These facts quote the stored community ai.robots.txt reference.
A matching description is used for 2 other entries. Counts below are specific to this crawler.
This entry’s stated use is quoted above. A requested page visit can answer a person now, whereas training collects material for a model. Owners may apply different access rules.
How many sites block it?
Of 6,171 robots.txt files we could read, 177 block the whole site with Disallow: /, or 2.9%. Another way to read the sample is by name, with 57 files naming it in a User-agent line, or 0.9%. The 5,994 remaining files have no recorded whole-site block.
Among 552 readable files from the top 1,000 sites, we found 9 files naming it, a 1.6% share, with 33 files blocking the whole site. Blocking is more common among the leading sites, at 6.0%. Outside this group, 5,619 files contribute 144 blocks, or 2.6%.
| Readable files | Named by | Named share | Blocked by | Blocked share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GoogleOther-Image, all ranks | 57 | 0.9% | 177 | 2.9% |
| GoogleOther-Image, top 1,000 | 9 | 1.6% | 33 | 6.0% |
| GoogleOther-Image, remaining ranks | 48 | 0.9% | 144 | 2.6% |
Here, the total counts whole-site blocks recorded for this crawler. It leaves out general User-agent: * instructions. Of 177 blocks, 141 do not also appear in our count of files naming it. Names and bans overlap in 36 files. We also found 21 files with a name and no whole-site ban, plus 6,114 files omitting the name. Case changes and repeated spellings are merged.
How to block or allow it
Place the group in your root robots.txt file. Per the robots.txt standard, a named group for GoogleOther-Image overrides User-agent: *.
Block the whole site
User-agent: GoogleOther-Image
Disallow: /Allow access
User-agent: GoogleOther-Image
Allow: /It's the 111th most-named crawler of the 171 we counted in the crawler index.
Which other crawlers does this operator run?
How we counted
For GoogleOther-Image, we surveyed Tranco’s top 10,000 sites on 19 October 2026. Each file had 8 seconds to arrive, up to 262,144 bytes. Shares exclude unreachable, unavailable and oversized files. Repeat readings are included, using scripts/robots_2026_08_06.py (robots.py at app commit 07104ff). See the full survey method.
Common questions
Does a User-agent line mean it is blocked?
This survey includes 21 files with the name and no whole-site ban, out of 57 naming files.
What do the top-ranked sites show?
Within readable robots.txt files near the top of the ranking, 1.6% name it and 6.0% block it. Overall, naming reaches 0.9% and blocking 2.9%.
Which nearby entry can I compare?
The nearby AmazonBuyForMe entry reports 56 files that name it and 52 whole-site blocks, 0.8% of readable files. Here, 57 files mention the name and 177 block access, or 2.9%.