Search News Buzz Video Recap: Google May Core Update Status, Buying AI Brand Mentions, Preferred Sources In AI Responses, Google Ads, Local & Legal
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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....
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Host: Barry Schwartz
Topics covered
- Google Core Update
- AI Brand Mentions
- Google Ads
- Local Search
- Legal Issues
Keywords
- core update
- AI
- brand mentions
- Google Ads
- local search
- legal
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Organizations: Google
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