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Google-Extended
AI Training Crawler Google robots.txt behaviour unknown robots.txt token only — no crawler UA
Google extended web crawler bot
Allow Google-Extended in robots.txt
User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: / Block Google-Extended in robots.txt
User-agent: Google-Extended
Disallow: / Blocking stops your content being used for model training. It does not remove you from AI search results — that's governed by separate search/assistant bots.
Official documentation: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/overview-google-crawlers
Is Google-Extended blocked on your site — even by accident?
Free dual-engine check: robots.txt verdicts for all 222 bots plus live User-Agent probes. Finds WAF blocks your robots.txt doesn't show.
Reading robots.txt policy…