Since Google launched AI Overviews (and AI Mode), there was an apparent lag or delay from when a web page would be removed from the Google Search index, including after getting a manual action penalty, to when it would also be removed from the AI Overview (or AI Mode). That delay is reportedly gone.

Google has added a lot of content boxes below the search box on the Google home page. These boxes promote a lot of the news out of Google I/O around AI Mode, AI image generation, tips on using AI Mode and more search news that came out of I/O.

Generally, when a Google Business Profile email notice gets sent, especially the rejection notices, the details around that rejection are obscure and unknown.

The skills that earned your promotion are the ones you need to unlearn. Here’s what separates executors from strategists in marketing careers.

Google has historically not posted a Doodle, a special Google logo, for Memorial Day in the United States.

AEO, GEO, AI Mode, signal loss. Three recent SEJ articles read together reveal the same truth: the questions beneath the terminology never changed. The post Digital PR Hasn’t Changed – AI Search Just Made The Fundamentals More Important appeared first on Search Engine Journal .

Most of the checks that tanked your agent-readiness score don’t apply to your website type.

Google I/O triggered panic about the death of Search. The risk is economic, not technical, and both sides of the debate are getting it wrong. The post Google I/O Didn’t End SEO.

AI now generates roughly half of all web content. Google’s quality systems know

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web. Google launched the May 2026 core update on Thursday afternoon. Google Search Console links report drops tons of links…