Liz Reid, Google’s Head of Search, was interviewed by Jason Howell and Jeff Jarvis on the AI Inside podcast. In that interview, Liz Reid said Google wants great content to shine in its search results and AI experiences. She said, “we really do want great content to shine and continue to connect people to it.”
It only took about two days – the Google June 2026 spam update is now done rolling out.
Google has just announced the release of the June 2026 spam update and said it should only take a few days to roll out. Truth is, we kind of saw this coming, although Google would say no, we did not.
Google has posted a new policy document for subscription linking for news publishers under the Google Publisher Center help area.
Google has posted a new policy document for subscription linking for news publishers under the Google Publisher Center help area. Google wrote, “Any publisher using this service must adhere to these policies.”
Google may have quietly rolled out an update on Friday, June 19th, that seems to may have impacted more of the black hat SEO side of things. It is not 100% clear because most of the tools seem pretty stable and yes there is chatter also in the more “white hat” forums, but I see a much larger spike in chatter in the more “black hat” forums.
I’ve been watching the chatter in the SEO industry, and honestly, it hasn’t calmed down much since my last report for the period of June 8-12. The Google search results seem more heated today, and there appears to be an unconfirmed Google search ranking update underway.
This week has been weird, in terms of Google Search ranking volatility. The volatility seems to have extended from this past weekend, throughout most, if not all, of this week.
Earlier this month, the Google May 2026 core update was completed on June 2, 2026. But the volatility has not seemed to calm down.
Google’s May 2026 broad core update has officially completed rolling out. Google announced this via X this morning and the Search Status Dashboard has been updated to document the rollout. It took less than 12 days to roll out, and this update felt larger than the last core update – the Google March 2026 core update.