crawling

About this tag
The crawling tag on WindowsForum.com covers discussions about how search engine crawlers and AI systems interpret web content. Recent threads highlight that Google and Bing crawlers already understand modern HTML and semantic markup, making separate markdown or plain-text pages for large language models unnecessary and potentially harmful due to duplicate content and policy risks. The tag focuses on technical aspects of web crawling, indexing, and how sites should structure content for optimal search engine and AI comprehension without resorting to redundant machine-only layers.

  1. Skip LLM Markdown Mirrors: Clean HTML Wins for AI Search

    Google and Bing have quietly but decisively told publishers: stop creating separate markdown or plain‑text pages specifically for large language models — it’s unnecessary, risky, and likely to backfire for sites that chase short-term AI visibility gains. Search teams at both companies say their...