Google Search controls for generative AI features

Search Console has a site-level Search generative AI control (Settings; rolled out to all websites worldwide by 31 August 2026) that excludes the site's content from AI Overviews, AI Mode and generative AI features in Discover; Google says the control is not used as a ranking or inclusion signal elsewhere in Search, and that it does not affect AI training (Google-Extended governs that). Properties inherit the setting from their closest parent unless an owner overrides it. Content is excluded within 1–2 days after a change goes live, some later due to caching; it is an account setting, invisible to a crawl. Google's generative AI optimisation guide makes inclusion in this control a condition of eligibility, alongside being indexed and eligible to show with a snippet.