{
  "title": "Search portal canonical snapshot records for AI",
  "source_page": "https://fiund.com/industries/search-portal-canonical-snapshot-data",
  "authorship": "Original fictional Fiund editorial exercise. No actual operating records or third-party source assets are included.",
  "example": {
    "title": "A changed canonical declaration does not establish a changed index selection",
    "context": "Fictional pages on example.test have separate publisher declarations, crawl observations and index snapshots. The exercise makes no statement about an actual site's rankings.",
    "records": [
      [
        "SCN1",
        "Day-1 crawl",
        "Page /a declares /b as preferred URL. Day-2 index snapshot selects /a."
      ],
      [
        "SCN2",
        "Day-5 crawl",
        "Publisher changes /a declaration to /c. Crawl confirms that markup; no day-5 index snapshot supplied."
      ],
      [
        "SCN3",
        "Day-7 index snapshot",
        "Search-system observation still selects /a. No later snapshot exists in the packet."
      ]
    ],
    "question": "What preferred URL did the publisher declare on day 5, and what selected canonical is actually evidenced after that change?",
    "answer": "SCN2 documents the publisher's day-5 preference for /c. SCN3 separately evidences /a as the search system's selected canonical on day 7. A crawl confirming changed markup does not prove the preference was adopted by the index. Report both dated signals and their disagreement rather than calling /c selected, indexed or higher-ranking from the declaration alone.",
    "failureModes": [
      "Treating a publisher-declared canonical as the search system's verified selection.",
      "Using a successful crawl as proof of indexing or ranking improvement."
    ],
    "fields": [
      [
        "Page and declared preference",
        "Captures the publisher-controlled signal."
      ],
      [
        "Crawl timestamp",
        "Dates the observed markup."
      ],
      [
        "Index snapshot and selected URL",
        "Separately records the search-system observation."
      ]
    ],
    "holdout": "Provide a later snapshot selecting /c but no search-impression evidence. Require the model to resolve selection without claiming traffic or ranking gains.",
    "boundary": "Use generic fictional domains and original records. Exclude real queries, private ranking signals, user data, crawler infrastructure and access logs."
  }
}