GoogleOther-Image

User agent

GoogleOther-Image

MetricRaven matches this token anywhere in the request's user agent, ignoring case. Operators add version numbers and browser text around it, for example "GoogleOther-Image/1.0".

IP verification

Verified when the user agent and the IP range both match

1. 1User agent

   The request's user agent contains GoogleOther-Image.

2. 2Request IP

   Your server-side tracker sends the IP that made the request.

3. 3Range check

   The IP is compared with the ranges Google publishes, refreshed twice a day.

Range sources

• Google common crawlers

  https://developers.google.com/static/crawling/ipranges/common-crawlers.json

Control it in robots.txt

User-agent: GoogleOther-Image
Disallow: /private/

Well-behaved crawlers re-read robots.txt within a day or so.

Questions

What is GoogleOther-Image?

GoogleOther's variant for fetching publicly accessible images. MetricRaven groups it under Training crawlers: crawlers collecting public pages that may be used to train AI models.

How do I verify that a request really comes from GoogleOther-Image?

Check both the user agent and the IP. Requests from GoogleOther-Image contain "GoogleOther-Image" in the user agent and come from the IP ranges Google publishes (https://developers.google.com/static/crawling/ipranges/common-crawlers.json). A request with the name but another IP is likely spoofed.

How do I block or allow GoogleOther-Image?

Add a robots.txt group for "GoogleOther-Image" with the paths to allow or disallow. Fetchers that act for a user may ignore robots.txt; block those at your server or firewall instead.

How can I see when GoogleOther-Image visits my website?

Most crawlers never run JavaScript, so browser analytics miss them. MetricRaven's @metricraven/ai-crawl package reports crawler requests from your server, verifies their IPs against published ranges, and shows which pages each crawler reads.