Stale gov.uk pages feed AI overviews outdated data

Zombie pages from the UK government website continue appearing in Google AI overview results, inadvertently spreading outdated information to citizens.

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Whitehall content teams play never-ending whack-a-mole removing and updating orphaned pages.

This phenomenon reveals risks of AI automatically indexing poorly maintained government content.

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