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title: "AI-First Indexing"
description: "An emerging pattern where search systems prioritize machine-parseable formats over rendered HTML."
topic: "Search Technology"
canonical: "https://geordy.ai/glossary/search-technology/ai-first-indexing"
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# AI-First Indexing

An emerging pattern where search systems prioritize machine-parseable formats over rendered HTML.

Mirrors Google's mobile-first indexing of the 2010s. AI-first means the version of your content that AI sees becomes the canonical version that decides ranking and citation. Sites that don't ship a structured AI-readable layer cede that canonical to whatever the LLM scrapes from cached HTML.
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Source: https://geordy.ai/glossary/search-technology/ai-first-indexing
This is a machine-readable markdown version of that page, generated by Geordy.