Google-Extended

What is Google-Extended?

About

Google-Extended is a web crawler used by Google to download AI training content for its AI products like the Gemini assistant and its Vertex AI generative APIs. You can see how often Google-Extended visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors agent analytics.

Expected Behavior

It's generally unclear how AI data scrapers choose which websites to crawl and how often to crawl them. They might choose to visits websites with a higher information density more frequently, depending on the type of AI models they're training. For example, it would make sense that an agent training an LLM (Large Language Model) would favor sites with a lot of regularly updating text content.

Type

AI Data Scraper
Downloads web content to train AI models

Detail

Operated By Google
Last Updated 19 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

18%
18% of top websites are blocking Google-Extended
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Country of Origin

Unknown
Google-Extended has no known country of origin

Global Traffic

The percentage of all internet traffic coming from AI Data Scrapers

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Robots.txt

Should I Block Google-Extended?

It's up to you. AI data scrapers usually download publicly available internet content, which is freely accessible by default. However, you might want to block them if you're concerned about attribution or how your creative work could be used in the resulting AI model.

How Do I Block Google-Extended?

⚠️ Manual Robots.txt Edits Are Not Scalable
New agents are created every day. Instead, serve a continuously updating robots.txt that blocks new agents automatically.

You can block Google-Extended or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt. Set up Dark Visitors agent analytics to check whether it's actually following them.

User Agent String Google-Extended
# robots.txt
# This should block Google-Extended

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

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