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Search Engine Roundtable · Jul 17

Google renames NotebookLM crawler user-agent to Google-GeminiNotebook

The user-agent string changed alongside the product’s rebrand to Gemini Notebook — relevant to anyone managing AI-crawler access in robots.txt, per Search Engine Roundtable.

Via Search Engine Roundtable ↗ · Google (rebrand post) ↗

Posted to the wire July 20, 2026.