ChatGPT's crawler sample code strips out all Schema markup

VeryWellVersed · x · 2026-10-27

Ryan Jones found that OpenAI's released sample code for the ChatGPT web crawler completely strips out all Schema structured data — putting to bed the myth that Schema markup helps with AI search visibility. A notable signal for anyone doing GEO/AI-search optimization: optimizing Schema for ChatGPT's crawler likely has no effect.

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