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

Google-Other is a Google crawler user-agent category for fetches outside classic Google Search crawling. It is not interchangeable with Googlebot. When it appears in logs, inspect requested paths, decide your policy and align robots.txt plus edge rules accordingly. Like any crawler, access should be explicit and monitored over time. Permitting or blocking Google-Other neither guarantees nor prevents AI citation outcomes on its own.

A frequent error is one blanket rule for every Google user-agent. Split decisions for Googlebot, Google-Extended and Google-Other so you do not create accidental blocks or unintended permits.