AI-specific markup is never recommended

Class

C4 Informational

Weight

0

Severity on fail

info

Applies to

Google

Scope and evidence

Evaluated on none. The book marks this requirement EXPLICITLY DISMISSED.

Not a check. The scanner never recommends schema or files for generative AI features, because Google says: "Structured data isn't required for generative AI search, and there's no special schema.org markup you need to add."

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.

• never_recommended

  Structured data isn't required for generative AI search, and there's no special schema.org markup you need to add.

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.

• “Structured data isn't required for generative AI search, and there's no special schema.org markup you need to add.”

  [G-AI-OPT] Optimizing your website for generative AI features on Google Search · Mythbusting generative AI search: what you don't need to do · last updated 2026-07-10

  https://developers.google.com/search/docs/fundamentals/ai-optimization-guide