Google-Safety
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What is Google-Safety?
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The Google-Safety user agent handles abuse-specific crawling, such as malware discovery for publicly posted links on Google properties. As such it's unaffected by crawling preferences. The Google-Safety user agent ignores robots.txt rules.
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Did you find Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.5735.179 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Google-Safety; +http://www.google.com/bot.html) in your logs?
If you've seen Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.5735.179 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Google-Safety; +http://www.google.com/bot.html) in your website logs, it indicates that Google-Safety has been visiting your site. This agent string is one of the known identifiers for this bot.
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Did you find Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.5735.179 Safari/537.36 (compatible; Google-Safety; +http://www.google.com/bot.html) in your logs?
If you've seen Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/114.0.5735.179 Safari/537.36 (compatible; Google-Safety; +http://www.google.com/bot.html) in your website logs, it indicates that Google-Safety has been visiting your site. This agent string is one of the known identifiers for this bot.
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Did you find Google-Safety in your logs?
If you've seen Google-Safety in your website logs, it indicates that Google-Safety has been visiting your site. This agent string is one of the known identifiers for this bot.
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Expected Behavior
This bot visits websites for various purposes including content analysis, data collection, or automated tasks. Its behavior may vary depending on its specific function and configuration.
Should I Block Google-Safety?
This bot is marked as non-compliant, which may mean it doesn't respect robots.txt or engages in aggressive crawling behavior. You may want to consider blocking it if it's causing issues for your site.
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You can block this bot or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt file. Use Spyglasses analytics to check whether it's actually following your rules.
User Agent Tokens
Google-SafetyShould match instances of this botrobots.txt
# robots.txt # This should block Google-Safety User-agent: Google-Safety Disallow: /
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