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Gemini-Deep-Research

Gemini-Deep-Research is a Gemini Deep Research agent token reported for collecting and scanning resources used in research answers. This record has no current Google source, so treat a matching request as unverified.

Reads a page when someone asks Gemini about it.

Get the robots.txt ruleRecord source
Is Gemini-Deep-Research allowed on your site?5 Google bots

Reads your live robots.txt and applies the same rules these crawlers use. Nothing is stored.

robots.txt token
Gemini-Deep-Research
Follows robots.txt
Not documented
How to verify it
Not published
Seen on
Not measured
Last checked
11 June 2026

Should you block Gemini-Deep-Research?

There is little to gain. Google does not document Gemini-Deep-Research, so a rule naming it controls none of its documented crawlers. Write rules for Google-Extended, Googlebot, Google-Agent, Google-GeminiNotebook, Google-CloudVertexBot, GoogleOther, GoogleOther-Image and GoogleOther-Video instead.

What blocking each Google bot does
Google botJobIf you block it
Google-ExtendedControl tokenDisallowing it limits future Gemini training and grounding uses covered by the token. Google says it does not affect Search inclusion or ranking.
GooglebotSearchBlocking Googlebot can remove pages from Google Search and eligibility for Google AI features that depend on Search indexing.
Gemini-Deep-ResearchThis pageUser fetchBlocking it can limit Gemini Deep Research from reading your pages during user-directed research tasks.
Google-AgentUser fetchBlocking it can prevent a Google agent from retrieving a page while completing a user-directed task. It is separate from Google Search crawling.
Google-GeminiNotebookUser fetchA hit usually means a person added your page as a source, not that Google is crawling your site broadly.
Google-CloudVertexBotOtherA hit usually relates to a configured Vertex AI workflow rather than broad public search crawling.
GoogleOtherOtherBlocking it may affect Google product-specific crawling but is separate from primary Search indexing policy.
GoogleOther-ImageOtherBlocking it can limit image-oriented Google product crawls without targeting regular Googlebot directly.
GoogleOther-VideoOtherBlocking it can limit video-oriented Google product crawls without targeting regular Googlebot directly.

About robots.txtGoogle has not documented whether Gemini-Deep-Research follows robots.txt, so a rule is a request, not a guarantee.

robots.txt
User-agent: Gemini-Deep-Research
Disallow: /

Asks Gemini-Deep-Research not to crawl any page. Other Google bots are unaffected. Add it to the robots.txt file at the root of your site, above any wider rules.

Ignored robots.txt?

Allowing Gemini-Deep-Research only creates the possibility of retrieval. To find out whether your pages are selected, measure which answer engines actually cite your pages using a stable query set.

Spot it in your logs.

Match the name, then check where the request came from. Anyone can copy a user-agent.

Reported user-agentsource
Gemini-Deep-Research

This string comes from a public crawler registry or observed naming, not current operator documentation.

  1. 1

    Match the name

    Search your server or CDN log for Gemini-Deep-Research, case-insensitive. A match is a clue, not proof.

  2. 2

    Check the source

    Google publishes no IP ranges, reverse DNS or signatures for Gemini-Deep-Research in the sources here, so it cannot be verified. Treat matches as unconfirmed.

Serve the content in HTML

The cited operator material does not verify JavaScript rendering. Serve useful HTML before client-side JavaScript where possible.

Questions, answered.

Gemini-Deep-Research is a Gemini Deep Research agent token reported for collecting and scanning resources used in research answers. This record has no current Google source, so treat a matching request as unverified.

Sources.

Reported, not operator verified. Operator facts and Trakkr’s measurements keep separate dates.

  1. [1]
    Reported crawler reference

    Reported, not operator verified · checked 11 June 2026

    github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt/blob/main/table-of-bot-metrics.md

Last source check 11 June 2026.

Changes

Google refreshed its crawler referenceThe current reference separates common crawlers, special-case crawlers, user-triggered fetchers, and product control tokens.
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