Applebot-Extended vs Google-Extended

Applebot-Extended and Google-Extended compared on 8 documented fields, from 16 claims, last verified 2026-09-13.

How many of the compared fields have the same answer for both crawlers, and how many differ.

Applebot-Extended and Google-Extended, fields compared. Same is the largest with 7 fields, out of 8 fields in total. Source: each vendor's own crawler documentation, quoted and dated on every claim page.

Field	Applebot-Extended	Google-Extended	Comparison
honours_crawl_delay	n/a	n/a	same
publishes_ip_list	no	no	same
purpose_documented	policy_only	policy_only	same
respects_robots_txt	n/a	n/a	same
robots_token_differs_from_ua	yes	yes	same
separate_search_and_training_tokens	yes	yes	same
verifiable_by_rdns	n/a	n/a	same
what_it_controls	AI training use of content, not search indexing	Gemini model training and grounding, not Search inclusion	different

Differences

Field	Applebot-Extended statement	Google-Extended statement
what_it_controls	Applebot-Extended controls the AI training use of crawled content and does not control search indexing.	Google-Extended controls AI training and grounding in Google systems and does not control Google Search inclusion.

Applebot-Extended vs Google-Extended

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