AI Overviews
Google's AI-generated summaries shown at the top of many search results, synthesising information from multiple web pages with links to…
GEO AI
Search generative AI control
A Search Console setting letting site owners include or exclude their site from Google's generative AI features — AI Overviews, AI Mode and generative features in Discover.
In full
The control offers include, exclude, or inherit from a parent property, and takes effect within a few days. Excluding does not affect classic Search rankings or other Google surfaces, but it forfeits the impressions and clicks those features generate. It is a cleaner instrument than snippet directives for publishers who want a binary decision, and sits alongside Google-Extended, which governs model training rather than search features.
Example
A subscription publisher excludes a paywalled subdirectory from generative AI features while leaving its free content included.
Related terms
AI Mode
Google's conversational search experience for complex, multi-part questions, returning a reasoned AI response with supporting links…
Google-Extended
A robots.txt control token that governs whether a site's content can be used to improve Gemini models and grounded Gemini API responses…
nosnippet / max-snippet
Robots directives controlling whether and how much of a page's text a search engine may show as a snippet or use in generated summaries.
Google Search Console
Google's free property-level reporting and diagnostics service covering search performance, indexing status, enhancements, manual actions…