Insights on AEO strategy, AI-powered search, and how brands stay visible when answers replace links.
Google Gemini brand mentions are variable, context-dependent outputs, not permanent rankings. Brands improve accurate discoverability by clarifying identity, maintaining accessible facts, publishing useful evidence, earning legitimate corroboration, and testing defined prompts across named Gemini surfaces.
Googlebot is Google Search’s documented crawler, while Google-Extended is a robots.txt control for specified AI training and grounding uses of crawled content, including documented Gemini-related applications.