Google · policy directive
Is Google-Extended blocked on your site?
Google-Extended is Google’s policy directive token for Google AI Overviews and Gemini, and whether it reaches you is decided by one line in your robots.txt. It is a robots.txt directive, not a crawler — no request ever arrives under this name. Disallowing it opts you out of Gemini and AI Overviews grounding without affecting ordinary Google Search ranking.
- Major crawler weight
- Google-Extended robots.txt token
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Phase 2 adds the parts that rank: the exact allow and block snippets for Google-Extended, what Google publishes about it, the CDN and plugin defaults that block it without telling you, and how it differs from the vendor’s other tokens.
This page is noindex until that lands, and it is not in the sitemap.