What is Google-Extended?
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 set up Agent Analytics to see when Google-Extended visits your website.
Overview
| Operated By | |
| Source | Official Website |
| Expected To Follow Robots.txt | Yes |
| Insights Last Updated | September 14, 2026 |
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Expected Behavior
Google-Extended tends to make broad, high-volume sweeps across many pages. Timing is unpredictable: traffic may remain heavy throughout a collection pass, then stop entirely.
Google-Extended's User Agent
| User Agent | Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 18_4 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Google-Extended/1.0; +http://www.google.com/bot.html) Version/17.2 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1 |
How To Block Google-Extended With Robots.txt
Add this rule to your robots.txt file to block Google-Extended from accessing your website, or use Automatic Robots.txt to block all AI data scrapers at once. You can customize which pages are blocked by swapping out / for a different path.
User-agent: Google-Extended # https://knownagents.com/agents/google-extended
Disallow: /Insights for Google-Extended
As of September 14, 2026, this data reflects agent visits measured across thousands of websites using Agent Analytics, combined with daily scans of the top 1000 websites and their robots.txt files.
Robots.txt Blocked Percentage
Country of Origin
Robots.txt Blocking Trend
20% of top websites block Google-Extended in their robots.txts.
Overall AI Data Scraper Traffic
2.8% of all web traffic came from AI data scrapers.
Top Visited Website Categories
The types of websites most frequently visited by Google-Extended.
Frequently Asked Questions
Should I Block Google-Extended?
Block Google-Extended if you want more control over whether your work is used for AI training. Allowing it may increase the chance that your brand appears in AI-generated answers, but either choice leaves traditional search rankings unchanged. For context, 20% of the top websites we track currently have robots.txt rules for Google-Extended.
Does Google-Extended Follow Robots.txt Rules?
Yes. Google-Extended is expected to follow robots.txt rules, so a disallow rule is the appropriate first step. Automatic Robots.txt can add and maintain that rule, while Agent Analytics lets you verify whether Google-Extended respects it.
Does Google-Extended Access Private Content?
Not through legitimate access. Google-Extended primarily targets public content, but some training-data scrapers also attempt to collect gated or paywalled pages. If content loads without authentication, assume it can be collected.
How Can I Tell if Google-Extended Is Visiting My Website?
Agent Analytics tracks Google-Extended visits in real time. You can also check your server logs for requests whose user-agent string contains "Google-Extended". Look for high page counts, short gaps between requests, and deep traversal through linked content. Because Google-Extended does not publish a verification method, any client can claim its identity and a log match is only a clue.
Why Is Google-Extended Visiting My Website?
Your content matched the criteria Google set for a training dataset. Google-Extended typically discovers pages through external links, sitemaps, and seed lists rather than because someone selected your site individually.