GoogleOther ?

66.249.65.xx

[Bewenched]

Quite an odd visit from 66.249.65.46
Chrome/138-0-7204.183 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; GoogleOther)

What do you guys think?

[not2easy]

You don't hear much about their Other, but is is a Google crawler and has been around for a few years. Searchengineland wrote about it in April 2023.

Google launches a new crawler named GoogleOther: [searchengineland.com...]

[lucy24]

Heh. Just this morning I found myself on G###’s Crawler Info page [developers.google.com], and was reminded of the existence of Other:

GoogleOther is the generic crawler that may be used by various product teams for fetching publicly accessible content from sites. For example, it may be used for one-off crawls for internal research and development. It has no effect on Google Search or other products.

[tangor]

Other ... hmm... and no effect on g search. So why would WE want it pestering us sucking bandwidth?

Bye bye!

[Brett_Tabke]

> So why would WE want it pestering us sucking bandwidth?

There are quality raters - you know this - that are all contracted via services. Then someone internal has to work with the raters and the contractors. When a rater turns up something interesting, it gets kicked up the line for a look. Other, is that look. Not good to block it.