Our newsletterPractitionerLily Ray, 2026
Google now instructs that all AI-generated content must be manually fact-checked and reviewed before publishing
Content production
- Reader Note:
- Google's updated documentation applies to content, titles, meta descriptions, structured data and image alt text. This is a practitioner's reading of what Google published rather than a measurement of anything: it is checkable against the documentation itself, and nothing here tests whether the instruction changes how pages actually rank.
- Evidence:
- Expert judgment
- Vendor interest:
- Moderate — This comes from a company with a commercial interest in this market, so it is not a neutral source.
- Sample:
- Not disclosed
Reader Note:
Evidence:
Vendor interest:
Sample:Good for
Getting a rough orientation, and deciding what to check yourself.
Not for
- Anything that needs a measurement. Nobody counted or tested this.
- This comes from a company with a commercial interest in this market, so it is not a neutral source.
- The source never says how big its sample was or what went into it.
- The source never says how this number was measured.
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