Googlebot is Google's primary web crawler. Google-Extended is the opt-out signal for Gemini training but does not affect AI Overviews retrieval.
Googlebot is Google's primary web crawler. Google-Extended is the opt-out signal for Gemini training but does not affect AI Overviews retrieval.
Misunderstanding the Google-Extended / Googlebot distinction is the most common AI Discovery technical error we see.
This term is part of the canonical AI Discovery vocabulary, published in the Body of Knowledge alongside the Eight Discovery Signals and The Methodology Handbook. The full glossary contains 56 terms — the operative vocabulary for AI Discovery practitioners.
Practitioners certified through Certified™ are tested on the AI Discovery vocabulary. This glossary is the institutional reference.
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