Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google May Core Update Status, Buying AI Brand Mentions, Preferred Sources In AI Responses, Google Ads, Local & Legal

About this episode

This episode provides updates on the Google May 2026 core update and discusses the implications of buying AI brand mentions.

This week in search, we gave a status update on the Google May 2026 core update. Google strongly warned against buying mentions for AI or manipulating mentions for AI. Google removed the indexing lag between....

People in this episode

Host: Barry Schwartz

Topics covered

• Google Core Update
• AI Brand Mentions
• Google Ads
• Local Search
• Legal Issues

Keywords

• Google
• core update
• AI
• brand mentions
• Google Ads
• local search
• legal

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Organizations: Google

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