"So after a big boost, Today the sites that got boosted are back down. I guess some kind of testing is goign on. My site, completely dead in search, Discover, and Google News, suddenly came back to life in Google Analytics. But not in the way I wanted. Google sent hundreds of Singaporean bots to it."
Google I/O is associated with spikes in Google Search ranking volatility, and volatility is being observed on the morning of the event. No official Google Search ranking update has been announced, but multiple unconfirmed update signals are being tracked. The March 2026 core update ran from March 27 to April 8, 2026. A continuing deindexing trend is also reported, with “Crawled - currently not indexed” increasing for many sites. Unconfirmed update activity is noted on several dates, including May 13–14, May 8, and April 27–28. SEO tracking tools and early chatter report traffic swings, including sudden recoveries and bot-driven traffic changes.
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