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Google develops Search, Gemini and creative tools including Flow. Its services touch both video production and the ways publishers reach readers. For creative businesses, those roles create separate decisions about making work and allowing Google to use published material. Publishers can use the Google-Extended robots.txt token to control specified future Gemini training and grounding uses. Google says this choice does not affect inclusion or ranking in ordinary Search. A separate Search Console setting governs appearance and grounding in generative Search features. Google reports worldwide rollout by August 31, 2026, and says sites that opt out lose traffic and impressions from those features. A publisher should assess those choices against the uses it wants to permit and the audience it expects to reach. A company-wide label such as “AI opt-out” obscures the differences between products; each setting needs its own scope check.
At a glance
- Status
- Covered
- Last checked
- Sep 13, 2026
- Topics
- Tools & Models
History and changes
Generative Search controls reach websites worldwide
Google reported worldwide rollout of its Search Console control for appearance and grounding in generative Search features, alongside new publisher insights.
AI Overviews begin their US rollout
Google began rolling AI Overviews out to US Search users, moving generated summaries with links beyond the Search Labs experiment.
Google introduces Gemini 1.0
Google introduced Gemini 1.0 in Ultra, Pro, and Nano sizes and began bringing a tuned version of Gemini Pro into Bard.
Google introduces a generative-AI publisher control
Google announced Google-Extended, a robots.txt control for publishers to manage whether their content helped improve Bard and Vertex AI generative APIs and future models powering those products.
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Google Flow adds frame controls and higher-resolution export paths
Opening and closing frames can make a shot easier to direct. Draft resolution, model access and the quality of the movement still need separate decisions.
Google’s AI opt-outs control different uses of a publisher’s work
Google-Extended covers specified Gemini training and grounding uses; generative Search has a separate setting. Neither a publisher opt-out nor a SynthID watermark establishes permission to reuse an image.