Google's latest Off The Record podcast was titled Markdown vs HTML with John Mueller and Martin Splitt talking about the use ...

It can handle most HTML tags and anything that isn’t able to be converted to Markdown is passed through as HTML. The first phase of the process is parsing the input into a syntax tree. To parse a HTML ...

Google’s John Mueller and Martin Splitt suggested caution about using markdown as a solution for optimizing for AI search, saying that it needlessly complicates something that is essentially simple.

At its core, Markdown is a super simple way to add formatting like headers, bold, bulleted lists, and so on to plain text. It was originally designed to be an easy alternative to HTML, and allows ...