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Rule · AI crawlers and generative search

Snippet eligibility for Google's AI features

SEO-AI-01C4 Informational· w0informational

Class
C4 Informational
Weight
0
Severity on fail
info
Applies to
Google

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Scope and evidence

Evaluated on page (P). The book marks this requirement ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENT (Google AI features), applied as a policy observation.

Informational because restricting snippets may be deliberate. Indexing itself is covered by the gates. Google's Search Console "Search generative AI control" is not observable from outside and appears in the manual checklist.

Observations

Each condition has a stable code and a reason template. The evaluator fills the placeholders from observed values only; no sentence in a report is generated.

  • nosnippet_policy

    Policy choice: {url} carries {directive}. To be eligible as a supporting link in AI Overviews or AI Mode, Google says a page must be indexed and eligible to be shown in Google Search with a snippet; nosnippet also prevents the content from being used as a direct input for AI Overviews and AI Mode.

  • max_snippet_limit

    Policy choice: {url} limits snippets with {directive}.

  • data_nosnippet_regions

    {url} marks {n} elements with data-nosnippet.

Sources, quoted

These are the passages the rule rests on, stored once in the knowledge base and emitted exactly as written. A citation marked for specific conditions appears only on findings with those codes.