--- title: "Google retires Google-NotebookLM string | Agent Ready Crawlers" description: "Google retires the Google-NotebookLM user agent. The page, last updated 2026-08-19, also lists Google-Agent and its experimental Web Bot Auth identity." canonical: https://agentreadycrawlers.com/news/2026-08-19-google-retires-the-google-notebooklm-user-agent site: "Agent Ready Crawlers" last_updated: 2026-11-04 date: 2026-08-19 section: "News" --- # Google retires Google-NotebookLM string | Agent Ready Crawlers > Google retires the Google-NotebookLM user agent. The page, last updated 2026-08-19, also lists Google-Agent and its experimental Web Bot Auth identity. Source: https://agentreadycrawlers.com/news/2026-08-19-google-retires-the-google-notebooklm-user-agent Site: Agent Ready Crawlers Last reviewed: 2026-11-04 News from 2026-08-19 # Google retires the Google-NotebookLM user agent In short 19 August 2026: Google retires the Google-NotebookLM user agent. The page, last updated 2026-08-19, also lists Google-Agent and its experimental Web Bot Auth identity. Google-GeminiNotebook is Google's live answer fetcher. Google-Agent is Google's browsing agent. Rows affected in this site: Google-GeminiNotebook and Google-Agent. Google's user-triggered fetcher list now names Google-GeminiNotebook for URLs users add as sources and marks the former Google-NotebookLM string as supported until August 2026. The page, last updated 2026-08-19, also lists Google-Agent and its experimental Web Bot Auth identity. Primary source [developers.google.com/crawling/docs/crawlers-fetchers/google-user-triggered-fetchers](https://developers.google.com/crawling/docs/crawlers-fetchers/google-user-triggered-fetchers), read 2026-11-04. ## Where it stands in the Index [Google-GeminiNotebook](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/crawlers/google-gemininotebook/) Google, live answer fetch. No robots.txt token. Verification: ip list. [Google-Agent](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/crawlers/google-agent/) Google, task agent. No robots.txt token. Verification: web bot auth. [All news](https://agentreadycrawlers.com/news/). ## Sources - [Google user-triggered fetchers](https://developers.google.com/crawling/docs/crawlers-fetchers/google-user-triggered-fetchers) read 2026-11-04 Last reviewed 2026-11-04