What is Gemini-Deep-Research?
Gemini-Deep-Research is the agent responsible for collecting and scanning resources used in Google Gemini's Deep Research feature, which acts as a personal research assistant. Agent Analytics can track when it visits your website.
Overview
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| Expected To Follow Robots.txt | Yes |
| Insights Last Updated | July 10, 2026 |
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Expected Behavior
Gemini-Deep-Research fetches one page at a time, the moment someone asks a question it can answer, so it never crawls your site. How much you see depends on how many people use Gemini-Deep-Research and how often they ask about what your site covers. A popular assistant can hit you steadily, while a single user or a niche one stays quiet between occasional spikes.
Gemini-Deep-Research's User Agent
| User Agent | Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; Gemini-Deep-Research; +https://gemini.google/overview/deep-research/) Chrome/135.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 |
How To Block Gemini-Deep-Research With Robots.txt
Add this rule to your robots.txt file to block Gemini-Deep-Research from accessing your entire website, or use Automatic Robots.txt to block all AI assistants at once. You can customize which pages are blocked by swapping out / for a different path.
User-agent: Gemini-Deep-Research # https://knownagents.com/agents/gemini-deep-research
Disallow: /Gemini-Deep-Research Global Insights
As of July 10, 2026, this data reflects agent visits measured across thousands of websites using Agent Analytics, combined with daily scans of the world's top 1000 websites and their robots.txt files.
Robots.txt Blocked Percentage
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Robots.txt Blocking Trend
3% of top websites block Gemini-Deep-Research in their robots.txt files.
Overall AI Assistant Traffic
1.2% of all web traffic came from AI assistants.
Top Visited Website Categories
The types of websites most frequently visited by Gemini-Deep-Research.
Frequently Asked Questions
Should I Block Gemini-Deep-Research?
Probably not. Gemini-Deep-Research fetches a page when someone asks a question it can answer, and the response cites and links to your site. Blocking it removes you from those answers without improving your Google rankings, because assistants play no part in traditional search indexing. For comparison, 3% of the top websites we track already have robots.txt rules for Gemini-Deep-Research.
Does Gemini-Deep-Research Respect Robots.txt?
Yes. Gemini-Deep-Research is expected to honor robots.txt rules, so a disallow rule is the right first move. Automatic Robots.txt adds and maintains that rule for you, and Agent Analytics confirms Gemini-Deep-Research actually honors it.
Does Gemini-Deep-Research Access Private Content?
It has no way in. Gemini-Deep-Research fetches pages the way an anonymous visitor loads a URL, with no stored logins. Anything behind a paywall or a login stays out of its reach.
Why Is Gemini-Deep-Research Visiting My Website?
Someone asked Google's assistant a question your page can help answer. Gemini-Deep-Research retrieved the page in that moment to ground the answer, usually with a citation linking back to you.
How Can I Tell if Gemini-Deep-Research Is Visiting My Website?
Agent Analytics tracks Gemini-Deep-Research visits in real time alongside every other known AI agent, crawler, and scraper. You can also check your server logs for requests whose user agent string contains "Gemini-Deep-Research". Look for fetches of individual pages that do not follow a crawl pattern. Keep in mind that Gemini-Deep-Research doesn't publish a verification method, so any client can claim its user agent string and a log match is a hint rather than proof.