The May 2026 core update was announced and was widely felt over the weekend. Google appealed the search monopoly ruling. Bing is testing an AI-curated Bing Image results interface. Google removed an indexing delay for AI Overviews and AI Mode. Google Business Profiles rejection notices now include more details. Google promoted AI features and I/O news on its home page, though a Memorial Day Doodle replaced it. Forum posts covered indexing attempts for third-party URLs, Google Discover feed personalization via prompts, and guidance on checking accept headers to understand content-type request patterns. Additional notes included Chrome’s “Ask Gemini” citation helpfulness marking and discussion of crawling variability across time and sites.
"Interesting that in “Ask Gemini” side panel in Chrome users can mark each citation URL as helpful or not helpful cool but not cool given it's “Helpful” word which of course haven't proven to be right PR strategy for Google, Gagan Ghotra on X"
#google-core-update #ai-overviews--ai-mode #bing-image-ai #google-business-profiles #seo-crawling--indexing
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