# Claim 62

Google-Extended is a robots.txt control token and does not correspond to a crawler user agent string.

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entity: Google-Extended
field: robots_token_differs_from_ua
value: yes
statement: Google-Extended is a robots.txt control token and does not correspond to a crawler user agent string.
evidence_url: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/google-common-crawlers
evidence_quote: "Google-Extended doesn't have a separate HTTP request user agent string. Crawling is done with existing Google user agent strings; the robots.txt user-agent token is used in a control capacity." source dated 2026-07-14
method: vendor_doc
verified_at: 2026-09-13
confidence: high
status: current
supersedes: none

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