Google-CloudVertexBot

AI Training Crawler Google robots.txt behaviour unknown

Google Vertex AI crawler indexing content for enterprise search solutions

User-Agent

Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Google-CloudVertexBot; +https://cloud.google.com/enterprise-search)

Allow Google-CloudVertexBot in robots.txt

User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot
Allow: /

Block Google-CloudVertexBot in robots.txt

User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot
Disallow: /

Blocking stops your content being used for model training. It does not remove you from AI search results — that's governed by separate search/assistant bots.

Official documentation: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/google-common-crawlers#google-cloudvertexbot

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