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Google Clarifies Googlebot Does Not Parse JSON Files

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Google's Gary Illyes clarified that Googlebot downloads JSON files without parsing them; the indexer handles the rest.

Gary Illyes from Google reiterated that Googlebot does not parse JSON files—it simply downloads them and passes them to Google's indexer for processing. This clarification is relevant to technical SEOs considering how structured data and JSON implementations may be crawled and indexed.
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