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Google-Extended

Google. Not a separate crawler but a robots.txt token: it lets a site opt out of its content training future Gemini models and grounding Gemini answers, without affecting Google Search. Google's documentation.

20.8%

of 12,650 measured news outlets block Google-Extended.

Each square ≈ 127 outlets

By continent

Share of each continent's measured outlets blocking Google-Extended.

Africa1,448
6%
Asia2,045
10%
Europe4,145
26%
Oceania341
23%

By country

Countries with 50 or more outlets measured, from the most blocking to the least.

Finland153
77%
Norway143
64%
Germany244
60%
Sweden178
53%
Denmark63
52%
Ireland84
42%
Italy222
40%
Canada199
37%
France397
35%
Australia252
27%
Japan307
26%
Poland165
24%
Austria70
21%
Portugal104
16%
Czechia71
16%
India249
13%
Brazil283
10%
Ghana77
8%
Peru78
8%
Mexico403
6%
China71
6%
Iran54
6%
Greece116
5%
Spain399
5%
Cyprus61
5%
Romania126
4%
Ukraine145
3%
Argentina1,093
3%
Russia158
3%
Turkey101
3%
Kenya106
3%
Chile149
3%
Nigeria226
3%
Serbia79
3%

Largest outlets that block Google-Extended

By public reach. One cell per crawler.

Google SearchGoogle-ExtendedOpenAIAnthropicPerplexityMetaCommon CrawlByteDanceAppleAmazonof 9
nytimes.com · United States
8
cnn.com · United States
8
bbc.com · Brazil
9
bbc.co.uk · United Kingdom
9
reuters.com · United States
9
bloomberg.com · United States
9
wsj.com · United States
7
globo.com · Brazil
3
espn.com · United States
4
npr.org · United States
7
uol.com.br · Brazil
8
wired.com · United States
8
ft.com · United Kingdom
7
usatoday.com · United States
9
techcrunch.com · United States
6
lemonde.fr · France
6
dailymail.co.uk · United Kingdom
9
people.com · United States
8
lefigaro.fr · France
5
theverge.com · United States
7
Google SearchGoogle-ExtendedOpenAIAnthropicPerplexityMetaCommon CrawlByteDanceAppleAmazonof 9
nbcnews.com · United States
9
repubblica.it · Italy
6
elmundo.es · Spain
4
theatlantic.com · United States
8
n-tv.de · Germany
3
ouest-france.fr · France
9
huffpost.com · United States
9
bfmtv.com · France
9
marca.com · Spain
4
aftonbladet.se · Sweden
8
nypost.com · United States
8
economist.com · United Kingdom
7
elconfidencial.com · Spain
9
theconversation.com · Australia
9
vg.no · Norway
8
gazzetta.it · Italy
7
merkur.de · Germany
8
abc.net.au · Australia
7
ladepeche.fr · France
7
actu.fr · France
9
BlockedAllowed

Largest outlets that let it in

By public reach.

Google SearchGoogle-ExtendedOpenAIAnthropicPerplexityMetaCommon CrawlByteDanceAppleAmazonof 9
facebook.com · Australia
3
endpoints.news · United States
5
t-online.de · Germany
7
medium.com · United States
6
theguardian.com · United Kingdom
7
forbes.com · United States
8
washingtonpost.com · United States
7
businessinsider.com · United States
3
indiatimes.com · India
1
foxnews.com · United States
0
Google SearchGoogle-ExtendedOpenAIAnthropicPerplexityMetaCommon CrawlByteDanceAppleAmazonof 9
time.com · United States
0
telegraph.co.uk · United Kingdom
1
elpais.com · Spain
5
cbsnews.com · United States
1
cnet.com · United States
8
independent.co.uk · United Kingdom
0
bild.de · Germany
5
nikkei.com · Japan
0
welt.de · Germany
5
apnews.com · United States
6