What is Google-Trust-Services?

Google-Trust-Services is a certificate authority bot that helps build a safer Internet by providing transparent, trusted, and reliable TLS certificates. It crawls websites to verify certificate authenticity and manage secure connections for Google services and users. Agent Analytics can track when it visits your website.

Category

Security Scanner
Scans websites for security vulnerabilities, threats, and configuration weaknesses

Expected Behavior

Google-Trust-Services's pattern depends on who pointed it at you. Continuous monitoring services check daily or even hourly, while a one time assessment sweeps once and disappears. Expect requests aimed at login pages, admin paths, APIs, and configuration files, because exposed ones are what scanners exist to find.

Overview

Operated By Google
Expected To Follow Robots.txt Yes
Insights Last Updated July 7, 2026

Robots.txt Blocked Percentage

0%
0% of top websites are blocking Google-Trust-Services
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Country of Origin

United States
Google-Trust-Services normally visits From the United States

Robots.txt Blocking Trend

As of July 7, 2026, 0% of top websites block Google-Trust-Services in their robots.txt files.

Overall Security Scanner Traffic

As of July 7, 2026, 0.0% of all web traffic came from security scanners.

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This data reflects agent visits measured across thousands of websites using Agent Analytics, combined with daily scans of the world's top 1000 websites and their robots.txt files.

Google-Trust-Services's User Agent

User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Google-Trust-Services/2.0; http://pki.goog/)

Access other known user agents and IP addresses using the Enterprise API.

How To Block Google-Trust-Services

Add this rule to your robots.txt file to block Google-Trust-Services from accessing your entire website. You can customize which pages are blocked by swapping out / for a different path.

User-agent: Google-Trust-Services # https://knownagents.com/agents/google-trust-services
Disallow: /
Block Every Security Scanner
⚠️ Manually adding individual robots.txt rules is not scalable. Instead, use Automatic Robots.txt.

Frequently Asked Questions

Should I Block Google-Trust-Services?

Not unless you already run your own scanning and want cleaner logs. Google-Trust-Services checks websites for exposed vulnerabilities, and some scanning services report what they find to site owners for free. Almost none of the top websites we track have robots.txt rules for Google-Trust-Services right now.

Does Google-Trust-Services Respect Robots.txt?

Yes. Google-Trust-Services is expected to honor robots.txt rules, so a disallow rule is the right first move. Automatic Robots.txt adds and maintains that rule for you, and Agent Analytics confirms Google-Trust-Services actually honors it.

Does Google-Trust-Services Access Private Content?

It probes for private content deliberately. Login pages, admin panels, and API endpoints are exactly what Google-Trust-Services tests, because exposed ones are what it exists to find. Probing is not the same as getting in, but expect requests to sensitive paths in your logs.

Why Is Google-Trust-Services Visiting My Website?

Google-Trust-Services is scanning your site for vulnerabilities, either as part of a sweep across the whole internet or because someone requested an assessment of your domain. Recurring visits usually mean a monitoring service has you on its list.

How Can I Tell if Google-Trust-Services Is Visiting My Website?

Agent Analytics tracks Google-Trust-Services visits in real time alongside every other known AI agent, crawler, and scraper. You can also check your server logs for requests whose user agent string contains "Google-Trust-Services". Look for probes of login, admin, and API paths. Keep in mind that Google-Trust-Services doesn't publish a verification method, so any client can claim its user agent string and a log match is a hint rather than proof.

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