Gemini Notebook
Gemini Notebook, formerly NotebookLM, is Google's research tool that answers questions from the sources a person adds, such as web pages and files.
Gemini Notebook is Google's research tool, called NotebookLM until Google renamed it in July 2026. A person creates a notebook, adds sources like web pages, documents and files, and then asks questions. The answers come from those sources.
For a brand, it's a different kind of AI visibility. Nobody finds you in Gemini Notebook by chance. Someone puts your page there on purpose, because they're researching you or your category.
How it works
The person chooses the sources. If they paste in the address of your pricing page, Google fetches that page and adds it to the notebook. Answers in Gemini Notebook are grounded in those sources only. Notebooks also appear in the Gemini app, where answers can draw on web search as well.
For example, a café owner comparing espresso machines might add Harrow & Pine's product page, two review articles and a supplier's spec sheet to a notebook, then ask which machine suits a 40-cover café. Whatever your page says is what the notebook has to go on.
Its fetcher
Because a person asks for each page, Google fetches them with a user-triggered fetcher, Google-GeminiNotebook. Google says fetchers like this generally ignore robots.txt, since a user asked for the page. The old token, Google-NotebookLM, was supported until August 2026.
What it means for you
You can't track what people ask in their own notebooks. What you can control is the page they add: clear facts, current prices and the answers to likely questions, written as text that a fetcher can read.