GEO / AI
Best practices — Google (May 2026)
Should AI formatting come before human readability?
No. Content written clearly for a busy human reader is usually easy for machines to interpret too. Artificial AI formatting should never compromise usefulness for people.
Further analysis
Use this entry as an audit checkpoint. The cited source establishes the context; the direct answer identifies what to check before choosing an action.
In SFT, this topic relates to Trust. Check whether the signal is visible on the page, connected to the rest of the website and supported by understandable evidence.
Related search terms include human readers first, GEO SEO balance. Use them to describe the issue in a brief, audit or answer page.
Applying SFT
Trust requires observable evidence: sources, consistency, citations, identifiable authors and verifiable claims.