Google-CloudVertexBot
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What is Google-CloudVertexBot?
Google-CloudVertexBot crawls content for Google Cloud's Vertex AI and enterprise search products. It enables businesses using Google Cloud to index and search their publicly accessible web content through Vertex AI Search. The bot follows Google's standard crawling practices and respects robots.txt directives. Website owners who block this bot will prevent their content from being indexed by Google Cloud enterprise search solutions.
User Agent String
Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/141.0.7390.122 Mobile Safari/537.36 (compatible; Google-CloudVertexBot; +https://cloud.google.com/enterprise-search)
How to Control Google-CloudVertexBot
Block Completely
To prevent Google-CloudVertexBot from accessing your entire website, add this to your robots.txt file:
# Block Google-CloudVertexBot
User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot
Disallow: /
Block Specific Directories
To restrict access to certain parts of your site while allowing others:
User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /private/
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /public/
Set Crawl Delay
To slow down the crawl rate (note: not all bots respect this directive):
User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot
Crawl-delay: 10
How to Verify Google-CloudVertexBot
Verification Method:
Reverse DNS lookup should resolve to googlebot.com or google.com
Reverse DNS lookup should resolve to googlebot.com or google.com
Learn more in the official documentation.
⚠️ AI Training Notice
This bot may collect and use your website content for AI model training. Consider whether you want your content used for this purpose before allowing access.
This bot may collect and use your website content for AI model training. Consider whether you want your content used for this purpose before allowing access.
Detection Patterns
Multiple ways to detect Google-CloudVertexBot in your application:
Basic Pattern
/Google\-CloudVertexBot/iStrict Pattern
/^Mozilla/5\.0 \(Linux; Android 6\.0\.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P\) AppleWebKit/537\.36 \(KHTML, like Gecko\) Chrome/141\.0\.7390\.122 Mobile Safari/537\.36 \(compatible; Google\-CloudVertexBot; \+https\://cloud\.google\.com/enterprise\-search\)$/Flexible Pattern
/Google\-CloudVertexBot[\s\/]?[\d\.]*?/iVendor Match
/.*Google.*Google\-CloudVertexBot/iImplementation Examples
// PHP Detection for Google-CloudVertexBot
function detect_google_cloudvertexbot() {
$user_agent = $_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'] ?? '';
$pattern = '/Google\\-CloudVertexBot/i';
if (preg_match($pattern, $user_agent)) {
// Log the detection
error_log('Google-CloudVertexBot detected from IP: ' . $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']);
// Set cache headers
header('Cache-Control: public, max-age=3600');
header('X-Robots-Tag: noarchive');
// Optional: Serve cached version
if (file_exists('cache/' . md5($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']) . '.html')) {
readfile('cache/' . md5($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']) . '.html');
exit;
}
return true;
}
return false;
}
# Python/Flask Detection for Google-CloudVertexBot
import re
from flask import request, make_responsedef detect_google_cloudvertexbot():
user_agent = request.headers.get('User-Agent', '')
pattern = r'Google-CloudVertexBot'
if re.search(pattern, user_agent, re.IGNORECASE):
# Create response with caching
response = make_response()
response.headers['Cache-Control'] = 'public, max-age=3600'
response.headers['X-Robots-Tag'] = 'noarchive'
return True
return False# Django Middleware
class GoogleCloudVertexBotMiddleware:
def __init__(self, get_response):
self.get_response = get_response
def __call__(self, request):
if self.detect_bot(request):
# Handle bot traffic
pass
return self.get_response(request)
// JavaScript/Node.js Detection for Google-CloudVertexBot
const express = require('express');
const app = express();// Middleware to detect Google-CloudVertexBot
function detectGoogleCloudVertexBot(req, res, next) {
const userAgent = req.headers['user-agent'] || '';
const pattern = /Google-CloudVertexBot/i;
if (pattern.test(userAgent)) {
// Log bot detection
console.log('Google-CloudVertexBot detected from IP:', req.ip);
// Set cache headers
res.set({
'Cache-Control': 'public, max-age=3600',
'X-Robots-Tag': 'noarchive'
});
// Mark request as bot
req.isBot = true;
req.botName = 'Google-CloudVertexBot';
}
next();
}app.use(detectGoogleCloudVertexBot);
# Apache .htaccess rules for Google-CloudVertexBot# Block completely
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Google\-CloudVertexBot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]# Or redirect to a static version
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Google\-CloudVertexBot [NC]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/static/
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /static/$1 [L]# Or set environment variable for PHP
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "Google\-CloudVertexBot" is_bot=1# Add cache headers for this bot
<If "%{HTTP_USER_AGENT} =~ /Google\-CloudVertexBot/i">
Header set Cache-Control "public, max-age=3600"
Header set X-Robots-Tag "noarchive"
</If>
# Nginx configuration for Google-CloudVertexBot# Map user agent to variable
map $http_user_agent $is_google_cloudvertexbot {
default 0;
~*Google\-CloudVertexBot 1;
}server {
# Block the bot completely
if ($is_google_cloudvertexbot) {
return 403;
}
# Or serve cached content
location / {
if ($is_google_cloudvertexbot) {
root /var/www/cached;
try_files $uri $uri.html $uri/index.html @backend;
}
try_files $uri @backend;
}
# Add headers for bot requests
location @backend {
if ($is_google_cloudvertexbot) {
add_header Cache-Control "public, max-age=3600";
add_header X-Robots-Tag "noarchive";
}
proxy_pass http://backend;
}
}
Should You Block This Bot?
Recommendations based on your website type:
| Site Type | Recommendation | Reasoning |
|---|---|---|
| E-commerce | Allow | Essential for product visibility in search results |
| Blog/News | Consider Blocking | Your content may be used for AI training without compensation |
| SaaS Application | Block | No benefit for application interfaces; preserve resources |
| Documentation | Allow | Improves documentation discoverability for developers |
| Corporate Site | Allow | Allow for public pages, block sensitive areas like intranets |
Advanced robots.txt Configurations
E-commerce Site Configuration
User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot
Crawl-delay: 5
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /my-account/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /*?sort=
Disallow: /*?filter=
Disallow: /*&page=
Allow: /products/
Allow: /categories/
Sitemap: https://example.com/sitemap.xml
Publishing/Blog Configuration
User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot
# Blocking AI training bot
Disallow: /
SaaS/Application Configuration
User-agent: Google-CloudVertexBot
Disallow: /app/
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /dashboard/
Disallow: /settings/
Allow: /
Allow: /pricing/
Allow: /features/
Allow: /docs/
Quick Reference
User Agent Match
Google-CloudVertexBotRobots.txt Name
Google-CloudVertexBotCategory
ai, searchRespects robots.txt
Yes
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