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Storebot-Google

Google's search engine.

Operator
Google
Type
Search engine
In the user agent
Storebot-Google
robots.txt token
Storebot-Google
Follows robots.txt
says it follows robots.txt
Official documentation
developers.google.com
Checked on
2026-11-11

What is Storebot-Google?

Storebot-Google is Google's search engine. It indexes pages for a search engine, whose results also feed AI answers.

The operator's description: Crawls product pages for Google Shopping surfaces. (developers.google.com)

How do I block or allow Storebot-Google?

With robots.txt, using the token Storebot-Google. Google says it follows robots.txt. To block the whole site:

User-agent: Storebot-Google
Disallow: /

To allow it, use Allow instead of Disallow. Before blocking, weigh what it brings: without it, the assistant cannot find your pages to cite or recommend them.

How do I see whether Storebot-Google visits my site?

In your server or CDN access logs, look for Storebot-Google in the user agent. Google Analytics does not show these visits: agents do not run its JavaScript.

Anyone can copy the name in a user agent, so counting log lines is not enough. Knocklog reads your site's traffic on any host, confirms who is who, and shows how often Storebot-Google came, which pages it read and what that brought you.

How do I know it is really Storebot-Google?

Google publishes Storebot-Google's IP addresses at https://developers.google.com/static/crawling/ipranges/common-crawlers.json. A visit that claims to be Storebot-Google from outside those ranges is spoofed.

The IP's reverse DNS, confirmed forward and back, must end in .googlebot.com.

Knocklog runs this check on every visit and separates the genuine agent from impostors.

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