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Google-Extended

Also: Google Extended

Google-Extended is a robots.txt token that controls whether your content can be used to train Google's AI models, including Gemini, and to ground Gemini's answers. It does not affect your ranking in Google Search: blocking it affects Gemini training and grounding, not search.

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Google-Extended is not a separate crawler with its own user agent; it is a control you set in robots.txt to opt your content in or out of Google's AI training and grounding uses.

Because it is decoupled from Search ranking, blocking Google-Extended does not protect or harm your blue-link rankings. AI Overviews are fed by ordinary Googlebot, not Google-Extended, so blocking the token does not remove you from AI Overviews either. It only governs Gemini training and grounding, so weigh AI visibility against training concerns when deciding.