Google-Extended

Operated by Google. Last seen today.

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.

Detail

Website

http://google.com/bot.html

Type

AI Data Scraper

Downloads web content to train AI models

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.

Insights

Other Websites

13%

of top websites are currently blocking Google-Extended in some way

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Access Control

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.

Using Robots.txt

User Agent Token	Description
`Google-Extended`	Should match instances of Google-Extended

You can block Google-Extended or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt.

# robots.txt
# This blocks Google-Extended

User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: /

Instead of doing this manually, you can generate your robots.txt automatically using the free API or Wordpress plugin.

Get the Robots.txt