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  • Google Adds Markdown Files To Help Docs But Not Used For Search

    Posted by WebLinkr on May 19, 2026 at 1:30 pm

    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.

    WebLinkr replied 4 hours, 8 minutes ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  • Legitimate-Salary108

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    May 19, 2026 at 3:08 pm

    This is interesting. Why do you think they are doing this? I mean considering they added and then removed LLMs.txt as well earlier.

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