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MCP servers are the correct way to offer this service. Webpages are for humans, these served documents are for agents.

You could argue that they could just let the agent curl an agent-optimized API, and that is what MCP is.

Sure, but Google isn't maintaining two sets of documentation here, the MCP server is just a thin wrapper around the webpage with a little search tool. So it's still the docs for humans just with a different delivery mechanism. Which is fine, but you can understand when hypertext exists largely for this exact purpose folks would find it odd and over complicated to reinvent the web over jsonrpc for robots.

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