Google Launches New Crawler for Bard Opt-Out, Adds Features Like Drive Integration and Lens Uploads

Google launched a standalone web crawler called "Google-Extended" that allows publishers to opt out of Google Bard without affecting Google Search visibility.
Previously, publishers could only opt out of Google's main crawler, which hurt Google Search performance.
The new crawler also stops other AI like Vertex from accessing sites.
Google Bard can now connect to other Google services like Drive, Flights, Maps, etc. to access more data.
Bard added ability to validate its responses via search and upload images via Google Lens.

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Posted 9/29/2023, 10:32:00 AM