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.
Added four sourced milestones covering publisher controls, Gemini and generative Search. Existing description, role fact, linked coverage and original publication date are retained.
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