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  "limitations": [
    "One owned SaaS property; not a market-wide study or controlled experiment.",
    "Current window predates October 28 changes and mostly predates October 24 page retirement. No post-change outcome is measured.",
    "The three queries were deliberately selected for product relevance, not randomly or to represent the whole site.",
    "Property totals are from date rows. Query data excludes anonymized/unreturned queries. Aggregations must not be added.",
    "No AI answers or citations were collected in this GSC pull. No cause is assigned to AI Overviews, content changes or a Google update.",
    "Average position blends markets, devices and searches; it is not a fixed current rank."
  ]
}