Google-GeminiNotebook: Google's live-answer fetcher
Google-GeminiNotebook fetches a page when a person adds it as a source to a Gemini Notebook project. It used to be called Google-NotebookLM.
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At a glance
Google-GeminiNotebook in one table
- Company
- What it's for
- Live answer: fetched while answering someone's question.
- robots.txt token
Google-GeminiNotebook- Full user agent
- Google publishes the token only, not the full string.
- Follows robots.txt
- May ignore it. Google says its user-triggered fetchers generally ignore robots.txt, because a person asked for the page.
- How to verify
- Google publishes no IP list or other way to check, so a visit with this user agent can't be verified.
- Source
- Google's documentation, read on October 12, 2026.
robots.txt
Allow Google-GeminiNotebook
Allow it. Each visit is a person asking an AI something your page helps answer, right now. Blocking it costs you that answer wherever the bot honours the rule.
User-agent: Google-GeminiNotebookAllow: /Needed only if a wider rule blocks it: robots.txt lets every bot in by default. A bot named in its own group ignores the User-agent: * group, so repeat your private paths there as Disallow lines. A block in your CDN or firewall has to be lifted there.
A rule only changes what the bot reads next. To see whether Google-GeminiNotebook reads your pages now, and which ones, track AI crawlers on your server or see the full AI crawler list.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
From Google's documentation, read on October 12, 2026.
Google-GeminiNotebook fetches a page when a person adds it as a source to a Gemini Notebook project. It used to be called Google-NotebookLM.
Google says its user-triggered fetchers generally ignore robots.txt, because a person asked for the page.
Google publishes no IP list or other way to check, so a visit with this user agent can't be verified.
Allow it. Each visit is a person asking an AI something your page helps answer, right now. Blocking it costs you that answer wherever the bot honours the rule.
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