Knowledge base v2.13.0 · Community edition · data through 2 October 2026
Thing · Feature
A Search Console property setting (inherit, include or exclude) that controls whether a site appears in Google's generative AI features without changing its web rankings.
Glossary · Search generative AI control
A Search Console property setting (inherit, include or exclude) that controls whether a site appears in AI Overviews, AI Mode and generative AI features in Discover, without affecting web rankings.
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The Search generative AI control covers AI Overviews, AI Mode and generative AI features in Discover. Excluding removes both links to the site and use of its content to ground answers.
Google Search Console Help · Day 1 · What's new in the world of Search
Slide and stage claims that name it, the ones Google’s documentation does not cover first.
John Mueller's slide said Search Console has very few indexing-like settings and listed the Search generative AI control as the one control in his talk that is not a meta tag.
John Mueller · Day 2 · Controlling indexing
Google said Search Console's generative AI reporting launched alongside the generative AI control, starting with impressions only, and may expand later.
Gary Illyes · Day 1 · What's new in the world of Search
Setting the Search generative AI control in Search Console to exclude keeps a site's links and content out of Search generative AI features such as AI Overviews and AI Mode, so the site gets no traffic or impressions from them; include is the default.
John Mueller · Day 2 · Controlling indexing
Google's Search Console talk at the Deep Dive covered five Search Console launches of the past year: query groups, AI-powered configuration of the Performance report, generative AI control and reporting, platform properties for social accounts, and multimodal search reporting.
Ariel Kroszynski · Day 3 · Inside Search Console: What’s New & How to Use It
nofollow is a link-graph hint for search engines, not an access control: to keep AI crawlers away from content, use robots.txt rules for the specific crawlers; at Google, Google-Extended covers Gemini training and grounding, and the Search generative AI control covers AI Overviews and AI Mode.
Ibrahim Anjro · Day 2 · Controlling indexing
Kit items about Search generative AI control: their own words name it, or several of the claims they rest on do.
Rests on 6 claims, 2 of them naming Search generative AI control
Also inglossary term Search generative AI control
The Search generative AI control covers AI Overviews, AI Mode and generative AI features in Discover. Excluding removes both links to the site and use of its content to ground answers.
Setting the Search generative AI control in Search Console to exclude keeps a site's links and content out of Search generative AI features such as AI Overviews and AI Mode, so the site gets no traffic or impressions from them; include is the default.
The Search generative AI control covers AI Overviews, AI Mode and generative AI features in Discover. Excluding removes both links to the site and use of its content to ground answers.
Setting the Search generative AI control in Search Console to exclude keeps a site's links and content out of Search generative AI features such as AI Overviews and AI Mode, so the site gets no traffic or impressions from them; include is the default.
The Search generative AI control covers AI Overviews, AI Mode and generative AI features in Discover. Excluding removes both links to the site and use of its content to ground answers.
Things named in the same claim, with the number of claims they share.