---
schema_version: "newruntime-reader-dossiers-v1"
type: "reader_dossier"
slug: "google-cloudvertexbot"
kind: "ai_answer"
operator: "Google"
researched_at: "2026-10-23"
confidence: "medium"
json_url: "https://newruntime.com/readers/google-cloudvertexbot.json"
canonical_url: "https://newruntime.com/readers/google-cloudvertexbot/"
---

# Google-CloudVertexBot

> Google crawler that performs crawls requested by site owners to build Vertex AI Agents; Google says it has no effect on Google Search or other products.

## Dossier

- Kind: AI search & answer engines
- Operator: Google (https://cloud.google.com/)
- Documentation: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/google-common-crawlers
- robots.txt tokens: Google-CloudVertexBot
- Feeds: research, unknown
- Respects robots.txt: Yes, per its documentation. Has its own robots.txt token Google-CloudVertexBot.
- Verification: Unknown (https://developers.google.com/static/crawling/ipranges/common-crawlers.json)
- Labels matched in our logs: google-cloudvertexbot

## Why it matters to New Runtime (our interpretation)

Crawls are owner-requested for Vertex AI agents, so a hit suggests someone is building an enterprise agent over New Runtime content (or the UA is spoofed).

## Observed behaviour

- Baseline 2026-10-23 (93-day window): 5 requests on 1 days; first seen 2026-10-05, last seen 2026-10-05; Dormant.
- Live numbers: https://newruntime.com/bot-traffic-history.json and https://newruntime.com/crawler-journeys.json

## Sources

- https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/google-common-crawlers

Identity: A family name is what a client claims in its user agent. It is verified only when its request came from the operator's published IP ranges or passed forward-confirmed reverse DNS, as reported per family in /crawler-journeys.json. Anyone can claim any name.

All dossiers: https://newruntime.com/readers.md