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Web & search ·
Google plans to support the shared robots.txt policy token too. An opt-out through the shared token will be read like blocking Google-Extended unless a site sets Google-Extended directly, and sites that allow Google-Extended stay eligible to be cited in Gemini answers.
Why it matters: One line in robots.txt can now affect whether Gemini cites your store. Check yours before changing it.
Web & search ·
OpenAI says it will respect a common robots.txt signal, drafted in the IETF AI Preferences group, so a site can state its AI-training choice once for every participating provider. Rollout is planned over the coming months; its existing per-crawler controls stay in place.
Why it matters: If you sell online, decide now whether you want your pages used for AI training and whether you still want to be found by AI search. Those are now separate choices.