This week’s Search provided the latest information on Google’s May 2026 Core Update. Google strongly warned against buying or manipulating AI mentions. Google has eliminated the indexing lag between search and AI responses. A bug in Google Discover reporting caused a drop in clicks and impressions on May 21st. Here’s a video interview with Google’s Sundar Pichai and Nick Fox. Google is testing new favicon and site name layouts in search. John Mueller said Google’s search quality rater guidelines are not a guide to search rankings. Google Ads includes new real-time policy reviews during the ad creation process. Google Ads will remove short-term data starting June 1st. Google Ads has a new prospect mode for cold leads. Google is testing the growth of shopping ads. Google AI mode tests a new style of Shopping ads. Google Merchant Center now has new AI performance analysis reports. Google Merchant Center has conversation attributes for AI responses. Google Local is testing a real-time stocks button. Google Business Profile adds views for your images and videos. Bing has actually released an AI-curated image interface. According to Samelweb, ChatGPT shows more links, which leads to a 150% increase in referrals. Google has formally appealed the monopoly ruling. And the EU could fine Google in the triple-digit millions for favoring its own services in search results. That was the search news at this week’s Search Engine Roundtable.
Sponsored: This episode is sponsored by ADSQUIRE. ADSQUIRE is recently known as the first advertising agency to post attorney ads on ChatGPT.
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