GoogleOther-Video
GoogleOther-Video 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-Video?
| Fact | GoogleOther-Video reference entry |
|---|---|
| Operator | “Google” |
| Purpose | “Scrapes data.” |
| Does GoogleOther-Video obey robots.txt? | “Yes” |
| Frequency | “No information.” |
| Cloudflare managed list for GoogleOther-Video | 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. Keeping a site available to readers may include allowing search and requested fetches. An owner may still keep the text out of training collections.
How many sites block it?
The 177 files blocking the whole site account for 2.9% of 6,171 readable robots.txt files. We found its name in 56 User-agent lists, a 0.9% share. Without a whole-site Disallow: / block, 5,994 files remain.
Across Tranco’s top 1,000 ranks, there were 552 readable files. Among them, 9 files carry the name, or 1.6%, with 33 files blocking the whole site. Blocking is more common among the leading sites, at 6.0%. Farther down, 144 of 5,619 files record a block, 2.6% of that group.
| Readable files | Named by | Named share | Blocked by | Blocked share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GoogleOther-Video, all ranks | 56 | 0.9% | 177 | 2.9% |
| GoogleOther-Video, top 1,000 | 9 | 1.6% | 33 | 6.0% |
| GoogleOther-Video, remaining ranks | 47 | 0.8% | 144 | 2.6% |
This is a count of blocks attached to the named crawler, covering the whole site. Blanket rules for every crawler do not enter it. Of 177 blocks, 141 do not also appear in our count of files naming it. The counted overlap is 36 files, with 20 files naming it without banning all paths. Missing names account for 6,115 files. Repeating a name or changing its capitalization does not increase the naming total.
How to block or allow it
Put these in robots.txt at the site root. Per the robots.txt standard, a group naming GoogleOther-Video takes precedence over User-agent: *.
Block the whole site
User-agent: GoogleOther-Video
Disallow: /Allow access
User-agent: GoogleOther-Video
Allow: /It's the 113th most-named crawler of the 171 we counted in the crawler index.
Which other crawlers does this operator run?
How we counted
For GoogleOther-Video, the survey covered 10,000 top Tranco sites, collected on 19 October 2026. Files had an 8-second timeout and a 262,144-byte limit. Missing, unreachable and oversized files do not contribute to these shares. Parsing includes files read again, through scripts/robots_2026_08_06.py (robots.py at app commit 07104ff). See the full survey method.
Common questions
Can a file name it and still allow it?
A name identifies the crawler addressed by a group. The survey found 20 files with that name and no recorded whole-site ban, out of 56.
How do the shares compare by rank?
For naming rules, 1.6% of the leading sample mentions it, compared with 0.9% overall. Whole-site blocking is 6.0% at leading ranks and 2.9% across the full sample.
What other entry is close in the index?
TwinAgent is named by 55 files and blocked by 53, or 0.9%. For this crawler, 56 files name it and 177 block it, a 2.9% share.