Sites that block Google-CloudVertexBot
346 of the 30,340 domains we have measured, 1%, disallow google-cloudvertexbot at the site root in robots.txt. Google-CloudVertexBot fetches a page live when a user asks the assistant for it.
Every domain here has removed itself from Google's answers. Blocking a retrieval agent withholds nothing from model training, because training uses a different token.
346 of 30,340 measured domains (1%) disallow google-cloudvertexbot at the site root in robots.txt. Every domain named on this page was fetched directly and its robots.txt parsed against RFC 9309; none of it is inferred from a third-party index.
Measured 2026-08-25 by direct request to every domain in the corpus. Method: how this is measured. Reuse under CC BY 4.0 with attribution.
Cite as: Crawl Census, "Sites that block Google-CloudVertexBot", measured 2026-08-25. https://crawlcensus.com/blocked/google-cloudvertexbot
The list 346 domains
Rank is the domain's position in the popularity list used to seed the corpus; a dash means it was scanned on request rather than seeded. Score is the site's overall AI access score, which blocking depresses but does not by itself determine.
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See also the Google-CloudVertexBot reference, the full census, and the JSON endpoint.