Google documents 64MB PDF crawl limit; converted PDFs rank in AI Overviews like HTML
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Google's Martin Splitt and John Mueller clarified that PDFs converted to HTML rank in AI Overviews like native HTML pages but are crawled infrequently, with a documented 64MB file-size limit.
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Martin Splitt and John Mueller of Google confirmed that PDFs converted to HTML are treated like standard HTML pages for AI Overviews ranking purposes, though they are refetched infrequently. Google documents a 64MB crawl limit for PDFs, and a new filename may be more effective than editing an existing file for forcing a recrawl.