Google-Other crawler: what it is and when it appears

Google-Other is a Google crawler user-agent category used for fetches outside classic Google Search crawling. It should not be treated as a direct synonym for Googlebot. If it appears in your logs, review requested paths, decide policy, and align robots plus edge rules with that intent. As with other crawlers, access policy should be explicit and monitored. Allowing or blocking Google-Other does not directly guarantee or prevent AI citation outcomes.

The common mistake is one-size-fits-all policy for every Google user-agent. Separate Googlebot, Google-Extended, and Google-Other decisions to avoid accidental conflicts.