Google-NotebookLM
What is Google-NotebookLM?
About
Google-NotebookLM is an AI-powered research and note-taking assistant that helps users synthesize information from their own uploaded sources, such as documents, transcripts, or web content. It can generate summaries, answer questions, and highlight key themes from the materials you provide, acting like a personalized research companion built on Google's Gemini model. Google-NotebookLM fetches source URLs when users add them to their notebooks, enabling the AI to access and analyze those pages for context and insights. You can see how often Google-NotebookLM visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors Agent Analytics.
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Expected Behavior
AI assistants fetch web content on-demand in response to specific user queries during conversations. Unlike crawlers that systematically index websites, these assistants make targeted, one-off requests to retrieve current information that supplements their training data. Traffic is unpredictable and driven entirely by what users ask about. You might see no requests for weeks, then sudden bursts when topics related to your content become relevant. The retrieved content is used to generate responses through retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).
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Robots.txt
Should I Block Google-NotebookLM?
Probably not. AI assistants visit websites directly on behalf of human users, so blocking them will effectively block those users. This could lead to a poor user experience and possible negative sentiment about your website. Not blocking AI assistants will allow more human users to use your website as they choose.
How Do I Block Google-NotebookLM?
You can block Google-NotebookLM 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.
# In your robots.txt ...
User-agent: Google-NotebookLM # https://darkvisitors.com/agents/google-notebooklm
Disallow: /
⚠️ Manual Robots.txt Editing Is Not Scalable
New agents are created every day. We recommend setting up Dark Visitors Automatic Robots.txt if you want to block all agents of this type.