Assistants read plain text, and much of a product site is stored as something else.
AI assistants now read manufacturer websites on behalf of architects and specifiers. The crawlers that feed them read plain HTML text, do not run JavaScript, and cannot fill out a form. A specification served as a download, a product guide behind a lead form, or a warranty that lives in an image returns nothing when an assistant is asked a direct question.
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