Search Engines

Googlebot Checker

Googlebot · Google · Last reviewed: 2026-10-01

Overview

Purpose

Google web search crawler.

Exact user-agent token

Googlebot

robots.txt

Allow example

User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /

Block example

User-agent: Googlebot
Disallow: /

Important limitation

A robots.txt verdict describes the published rule for the tested path. It does not prove crawling, indexing, training, citations or traffic.

Frequently asked question

Does this rule control every product from the same operator?

No. Operators can publish separate user-agent tokens for training, search and user-triggered retrieval. Configure each documented token intentionally.

Official source

Google documentation ↗