AI Crawlers & Bots

Google-Extended

Definition

Google-Extended is the robots.txt user agent that controls whether Google can use a site's content for AI training (Gemini, AI Overviews training). It is distinct from Googlebot, which controls Search indexing. Blocking Google-Extended does not affect organic Search rankings but does exclude the site from AI Overview citation eligibility.

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