Google's AI Features Doc Has No Opt-Out Switch. Here Is Why
I counted every word in Google's AI features doc: zero hits for opt out, opt-out, or exclude. Why no AI-only exclusion lever exists, and what to do instead.
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Quote-level deep links break only inside code blocks
I built 69 text-fragment links from my own production build and clicked each one in Chromium. All 48 prose quotes landed; 14 of 15 code-block quotes did not.
What a div grid loses: a11y tree vs. text extraction
I built one opening-hours table four ways, then ran axe-core and five extractors over it. axe passed all four, yet three lost all 7 rows once HTML became text.
FAQ Rich Results Are Dead. Don't Delete the Q&A Markup
Google retired FAQ rich results on May 7, 2026. FAQPage JSON-LD still passes the schema validator but returns DEPRECATED. What to change in code and content.
The meta Line That Decides If AI Overviews Can Quote You
A stray nosnippet no longer hides your snippet only. Google says it blocks the page as AI Overview input. I built broken and fixed pages and a parser to audit.
A wrong accessible name breaks voice control and AI agents
aria-label can make the accessibility tree announce a word no one sees. A reproduced WCAG 2.5.3 Label in Name failure, with Agentic Browsing going 0 to 100.
AI Crawlers Don't Run Your JavaScript
GPTBot and ClaudeBot don't render JS. Here's a curl experiment proving client-side pages are invisible to AI search, plus how to fix it server-side.
Tie Your JSON-LD Into One @graph Search and AI Can Read
My JSON-LD validated as three disconnected islands. Here's how @id references stitch Organization, WebSite, and Article into one @graph, measured with jsonld.
Control AI Crawlers with robots.txt: Block vs. Allow (2026)
Many sites block GPTBot in one line and call it done. I built a robots.txt that separates training, search, and fetch crawlers, then verified it with a parser.