What is Storebot-Google?
Storebot-Google is Google's shopping crawler. Google lists it among its common crawlers, and crawling preferences addressed to it affect Google Shopping.
Last verified 2026-09-30 against the operator's documentation. All bots
Storebot-Google at a glance
- Operator
- Type
- Other Google crawlers
- Purpose
- Crawls product and store pages for Google Shopping.
- robots.txt token
Storebot-Google- Example user agent
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; Storebot-Google/1.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/W.X.Y.Z Safari/537.36- How to verify
- Run a reverse DNS lookup on the source IP and check that the name ends in googlebot.com (Google uses crawl-….googlebot.com and geo-crawl-….geo.googlebot.com), then run a forward lookup on that name and confirm it returns the same IP. Or check the IP against Google's common crawler ranges. A googleusercontent.com name does not count: any Google Cloud virtual machine can have one.
- Reverse DNS
- googlebot.com
- Operator documentation
- https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/google-common-crawlers
How often is Storebot-Google impersonated?
Our verification data for Storebot-Google was incomplete during the measurement window, so a share would overstate impersonation. We show none until it is complete.
This directory measures requests between 3 July 2026 and 28 September 2026. The fake crawler report covers its own, earlier window (late June to 21 September 2026), so its figures differ from the ones here. Read it for the method.
Have a request that claims to be Storebot-Google? Check its IP address.
Should you block Storebot-Google?
- Allow it if
- you list products on Google Shopping.
- Block it if
- you sell nothing through Google and the crawl adds load.
- What blocking changes
- Google Shopping loses its view of your product pages, which can affect product listings.
To block it, add this group to your robots.txt. Google says its common crawlers always obey robots.txt when crawling automatically.
User-agent: Storebot-Google
Disallow: /robots.txt only asks. It does nothing against a client that ignores it or only pretends to be Storebot-Google. Stopping those takes verification at your edge.
Storebot-Google: common questions
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What is Storebot-Google?
Storebot-Google is Google's shopping crawler. Google lists it among its common crawlers, and crawling preferences addressed to it affect Google Shopping.
How do I verify that a request is really Storebot-Google?
Run a reverse DNS lookup on the source IP and check that the name ends in googlebot.com (Google uses crawl-….googlebot.com and geo-crawl-….geo.googlebot.com), then run a forward lookup on that name and confirm it returns the same IP. Or check the IP against Google's common crawler ranges. A googleusercontent.com name does not count: any Google Cloud virtual machine can have one. The user agent alone proves nothing: any client can send it.
How do I block Storebot-Google in robots.txt?
Add a group for User-agent: Storebot-Google with Disallow: /. Google says its common crawlers always obey robots.txt when crawling automatically. robots.txt only asks. A client that ignores it, or pretends to be Storebot-Google, has to be stopped at your edge.
What happens if I block Storebot-Google?
Google Shopping loses its view of your product pages, which can affect product listings.
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