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See whether Gemini names your brand, then change it

Tracked on the Growth and Business plans

Attensira asks Gemini your buyers' questions every day on the Growth and Business plans, and records whether it names you, which sources it shows and who it names instead, each with its sample size. Attensira's default first move there is placement in threads, videos and roundups, until your own readings point elsewhere. You approve what ships.

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How Gemini grounds a reply in Google Search, per Google's docs
Decides
The model judges whether a Google Search would improve the answer
Searches
It writes one or several queries and runs them on Google Search
Answers
It writes the reply from those results, grounded in them
Cites
Each citation links a span of the reply to a page's URL and title
In the Gemini app
Sources show in line or behind a Sources button; not every reply has them
Gemini API docs: grounding with Google Search, updated 23 Sep 2026Gemini Apps Help: view sources and related content (read 4 Oct 2026)

What does Google document about Gemini?

The frame at the top is Google's own account: Gemini grounds a reply in Google Search, so the pages it can cite are pages Google Search returns. Its one control is Google-Extended, a robots.txt token, not a crawler, so no Gemini visit shows in your logs. Our own log recorded no Google-Extended request in the 30 days to 4 October 2026.

What Google documents for Gemini
Google-Extended
Governs whether crawled pages train Gemini and ground Gemini Apps
Google Search
Not affected: Google-Extended changes no inclusion or ranking
Google Search Central: Google's common crawlers, Google-Extended (read 4 Oct 2026)

How does Gemini decide which brands to name?

Gemini is Google's assistant. Google's help page says Gemini Apps may provide links to sources and related content, shown with a Sources button at the bottom of a response or in line.

Google gives publishers one control for it: Google-Extended. It governs whether pages Google crawls may be used to train Gemini models and for grounding in Gemini Apps. Google says Google-Extended does not affect a site's inclusion or ranking in Google Search, so blocking it is a Gemini decision, not a search one.

What it leans on

  • Pages Google crawls, unless Google-Extended is blocked
  • The sources it links, in line or behind the Sources button
  • Google's own properties and listings

How do you get cited by Gemini?

What the crew works on first in Gemini, in order.

Measured
Before and after each change, on the same prompts
Ships when
You approve it (Draft mode is the default)
Project plan · Gemini4 steps
  1. 01

    Do not block Google-Extended unless you mean to keep your pages out of Gemini's grounding.

  2. 02

    Be in the threads, videos and roundups that show up in Gemini's sources for your questions.

  3. 03

    Keep your Google Business Profile and YouTube channel accurate, if you have them.

  4. 04

    Answer the buyer's question on its own page, in the first paragraph.

Chief of staff agentChief of staff · orders the workExample · the order the crew usually works in on Gemini

Why does Gemini matter for your brand?

  • Gemini answers can differ from AI Overviews for the same question.
  • Attensira's default rule for Gemini is placement: being in the threads, videos and roundups its sources show.
  • Google-Extended is the one control, and it is easy to block by accident.

What does one Gemini reading record?

Which plans
Growth and Business, the plans sold today; accounts still on the retired Agency plan read it too. On Starter the setting can be on but nothing is asked, so the metric comes back untracked, never as a zero.
Named or not
Whether the answer names your brand, and where in the answer. Across readings that is your mention rate.
Cited pages
Every page the answer cites, yours and everyone else's. Across readings that is your citation rate and the sources that decide the answer.
Who instead
The competitors named in your place, so share of voice is measured on the same answers as yours.
Tone
How the answer talks about you. Sentiment is read from the same stored answer, never a separate guess.
Which engines each plan reads, in the docs

What can a publisher control in Gemini?

One thing: Google-Extended. It governs whether content Google crawls may be used to train Gemini models and for grounding in Gemini Apps and in Grounding with Google Search on Vertex AI. Google says it does not affect inclusion or ranking in Google Search.

Blocking Google-Extended keeps your pages out of the grounding Gemini uses to answer. Few sites mean that, and it is worth checking your robots.txt was not changed by a blanket "block AI bots" rule.

Check robots.txt4 steps
  1. 01

    Open

    yoursite.com/robots.txt, the file Google reads before it crawls.

  2. 02

    Find

    Any rule for Google-Extended, or a blanket rule that blocks AI bots by name.

  3. 03

    Decide

    Blocking Google-Extended keeps your pages out of Gemini's grounding. It does not change Google Search.

  4. 04

    Keep

    Googlebot allowed either way, so AI Overviews and Search still see the page.

Example · a check you run on your own site's robots.txt

Questions about Gemini

Does Attensira track Gemini?
Yes. Gemini is read every day on the Growth and Business plans, for each prompt you track and in each market you add. Each reading records whether Gemini named you, which pages it cited and the tone, and every rate carries its sample size. A change inside the noise is reported as no change.
Does Gemini show where its answer came from?
Often. Google's help page says Gemini Apps may provide links to sources and related content, in line or behind a Sources button at the bottom of the response.
What does Google-Extended control?
Whether pages Google crawls may be used to train Gemini models and for grounding in Gemini Apps. Google says it does not affect inclusion or ranking in Google Search. Blocking it keeps your pages out of Gemini's grounding, so think before you do.
Is Gemini the same as Google AI Overviews?
No. Gemini is Google's assistant app; AI Overviews is the summary at the top of Google Search results. They can cite different pages for the same question, so they are read and reported separately.
Why does Starter not include Gemini?
Each engine adds a daily reading per prompt, per market, at the plan's sampling depth. Starter reads 4 engines; Growth and Business add Gemini and read three samples per prompt instead of one.
Are Gemini and AI Overviews reported together?
No. They are separate channels with separate rates, because the same question can get a different answer and different sources on each.

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