Everything You Want to Know about GoogleOther-Image
GoogleOther-Image is the version of Google's generic GoogleOther crawler optimized for fetching publicly accessible image URLs; not tied to a specific Google product.
Last verified August 15, 2026 against Google's published crawler docs
Why it's crawling your site
Used by Google product teams for one-off image-fetching research and development; doesn't affect Search ranking.
How GoogleOther-Image views your website
GoogleOther-Image fetches raw page HTML (image byte fetch) — it does not execute JavaScript. Content that only appears after client-side rendering is invisible to it.
Paste a URL for the rendered-vs-crawled diff, blocked resources, and the sections that never reach the bot.
How to block GoogleOther-Image
Add the rule below to your site's robots.txt. Most crawlers, including GoogleOther-Image, check for changes within 24 hours.
User-agent: GoogleOther-Image (also matches GoogleOther)
Disallow: /Need the full walkthrough?
Partial blocks, per-directory rules, Cloudflare and server-level options, verification.