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Google details how PDFs are crawled, indexed, and ranked in search results

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Google's Martin Splitt and John Mueller discussed how Google crawls, indexes, and ranks PDFs, including file limits and link handling.

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In a Search Off the Record podcast episode titled "PDFs in Search: Indexing, AI & Pitfalls," Google's Martin Splitt and John Mueller covered how Google processes PDFs for crawling and indexing, including how the company handles links and images within PDF files, file size limits, whether PDFs can rank in search results, and how PDFs perform in AI search.

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