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Gemini

Google's AI assistant crawlers including Safety and Cloud Vertex bots.

Operated by Google

What is Gemini?

Google Gemini operates through several crawler identities including Google-Safety, Google-CloudVertexBot, and Gemini-Deep-Research. These crawlers access web content to power Google's AI assistant ecosystem, from safety evaluations to real-time research.

Google-CloudVertexBot is used by Vertex AI Agent Builder, accessing sites when customers configure their own AI agents through Google Cloud. Google-Safety evaluates content for safety and quality. Together they represent Google's expanding AI infrastructure.

Google's AI crawlers are particularly significant because they operate from the same verified IP ranges as Googlebot, making authentication straightforward. Content accessed by these bots feeds into various Google AI services used by billions of people.

User-Agent Strings

These are the known user-agent patterns used by Gemini. Use them to identify this crawler in your server logs or configure robots.txt rules.

Google-Safety
Google-CloudVertexBot
Gemini-Deep-Research

robots.txt example:

User-agent: Google-Safety
Disallow: /private/
Allow: /

How to Manage Gemini

1

Google AI bots share Googlebot IP ranges — easy to verify authenticity.

2

Use Switch to track Gemini-related crawl volume separately from Googlebot search.

3

Serve well-structured content for better AI extraction.

4

Google-CloudVertexBot only visits if a Vertex AI customer configures it — very targeted.

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