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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 AI answers. Crucially, it does not affect your ranking in Google Search: blocking it removes you from one AI surface, not from 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. It only governs AI use, so weigh AI visibility against training concerns when deciding.