Number of websites blocking Google-Extended jump 180%
More than 250 websites now block Google-Extended, the “standalone product token” Google introduced Sept. 28 to let you block Bard, Vertex AI generative APIs and future generations of models from accessing your content.
That’s according to research shared exclusively with Search Engine Land by the Detailed.com team.Why we care. There has been much debate and discussion about whether brands and businesses should block any bots (e.g., GPTBot, CCBot) that crawl content that is then used to train LLMs. Only a minority…