Google-Extended Can Exclude Pages from Vertex AI Grounding Without Blocking Google Search
Use Google-Extended as a robots.txt control token for specified Gemini training and grounding uses while keeping Google Search crawling and ranking separate.
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Gemini search grounding, retrieval, citations, product changes, and publisher-facing controls.
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Use Google-Extended as a robots.txt control token for specified Gemini training and grounding uses while keeping Google Search crawling and ranking separate.
Google is shutting three Imagen 4 API model IDs on August 17, 2026. Migrate production image workflows to Gemini image generation with a measured cutover and rollback.
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Use Gemini with one eligible Google Business Profile through read, draft and change tiers, source-of-truth checks, approval records, public verification and rollback.
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