AI search & answer engines

Google-CloudVertexBot

Googlemedium confidence

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

Operator: Google
Documentation: developers.google.com
robots.txt token: Google-CloudVertexBot
Feeds: research, unknown
Follows robots.txt: Yes, per its documentationHas its own robots.txt token Google-CloudVertexBot.
How to verify: Unknowndevelopers.google.com
Names in our logs: google-cloudvertexbot
Researched: 23 Oct 2026

Observed on New Runtime

Baseline 2026-10-23 · 93-day window · loading live numbers…

Requests: 5
Days active: 1 / 93
First seen: 5 Oct 2026
Last seen: 5 Oct 2026

Dormantother_bot

Daily requests across the observed window, square-root scale.

Identity check claimed vs verified

No per-family identity check is published for this reader; its name is a claim.

What it reads crawler journeys · current window

The crawler-journeys aggregate tracks reading depth for the busiest named crawlers only; this family is not among them.

Sources

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