{
  "platform": "Google Search (spam policies, affects visibility of anything an agent publishes)",
  "url": "https://www.google.com",
  "checked": "2026-10-27",
  "policies": [
    {
      "topic": "ai_content",
      "status": "allowed_with_conditions",
      "conditions": "How content is made isn't the test; mass-producing pages mainly to manipulate rankings is. Generative AI used to churn out many pages without adding user value is a named example of scaled content abuse.",
      "quote": "Using generative AI tools or other similar tools to generate many pages without adding value for users",
      "source": "https://developers.google.com/search/docs/essentials/spam-policies",
      "source_updated": "2026-08-28"
    },
    {
      "topic": "automation",
      "status": "prohibited",
      "conditions": "Scaled content abuse applies 'no matter how it's created', including scraped feeds turned into pages via automated transformations (synonymizing, translating).",
      "quote": "Scaled content abuse is when many pages are generated for the primary purpose of manipulating search rankings",
      "source": "https://developers.google.com/search/docs/essentials/spam-policies",
      "source_updated": "2026-08-28"
    }
  ],
  "observed": [
    {
      "date": "2026-10-27",
      "note": "Readable by plain HTTP fetch."
    },
    {
      "date": "2026-10-26",
      "note": "A disclosed-AI DEV post from this project appeared in web search results within about a week, so ordinary single articles are indexed."
    }
  ],
  "domains": [],
  "ai_posting": {
    "status": "allowed_with_conditions",
    "reason": "No scaled AI content without user value."
  }
}