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It looks like the Google Search Console link report has gone haywire and is broken pretty badly. Tons of SEOs are seeing zero links in the report, whereas others are seeing huge drops in the link counts in the report.

Google began rolling out the May 2026 core update, the second broad core update this year. It may take up to two weeks to complete.

Google officially announced the rollout of the May 2026 core update just now, on Thursday at around 11:43 am ET. This core update is expected to take about 2 weeks to roll out. Google said this “is a regular update designed to better surface relevant, satisfying content for searchers from all types of sites.”

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 Marketing Live is done and we covered the new conversational discovery ads and highlighted answer ads…

The shared standards that once made one engine’s guidance apply to all of them never got built between LLM providers. Optimization is no longer portable.

Google announced at Google Marketing Live two new ad formats that will show up in Google’s AI Mode.

Google announced at Google Marketing Live that it is also bringing Shopping ads, Business Agent for Leads and expanding the Direct Offers pilot for AI Mode in the coming months.

Google announced it is making one uniform AI-agentic advisor named Ask Advisor that brings together Google Ads Advisor and Google Analytics Advisor, and I assume the beta Google Merchant Advisor.