Technical requirements for a website to be 'AI-crawlable' and 'LLM-ready' in 2026

The search behaviour of people has changed more in the last two years than it did in the previous decade. You must have noticed that when you search for something on Google, instead of a list of links, you get a written answer at the top. That answer even cites two or three top-performing websites. And you must have analyzed everyone below those gets ignored. In the earlier days of 2026, this was happening in roughly one out of every four Google searches, and in fields like B2B tech and healt...