Google has added markdown files, .md.txt files, to the Google Search help documents. But John Mueller from Google said that these are not being used for Search or generative AI responses in Search.
For example, any of the pages, such as this one, in the Google Search developer documents, has this drop down to access the markdown file:
John Mueller from Google responded to this on LinkedIn and said, “This is not being done for Search or generative AI responses in Search.”
Here is the markdown file for that document, if you cannot access it yourself.
This reminds me of when Google added the LLMS.txt files to their help docs and then removed it and said it does not endorse LLMS.txt.
I guess we will see where this goes but Google is saying, even though Markdown files are available, Google Search does not use it. It could be used for many othe reasons outside of Search.
Forum discussion at LinkedIn.
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