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Daily Search Forum Recap: May 25, 2026

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.

The Google May 2026 core update was announced on Thursday but this weekend it was felt in a big way by many (not all). Google has appealed the search monopoly ruling, as expected. Bing is officially testing the new AI-curated Bing Image results interface. Google seems to have removed the indexing delay for AI Overviews and AI Mode. Google Business Profiles rejection notices have more details. Google is promoting AI features and I/O news on its home page…

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Search Engine Roundtable

Google Promoting AI Features Out Of I/O On Home Page

Google has added a lot of content boxes below the search box on the Google home page. These boxes promote a lot of the news out of Google I/O around AI Mode, AI image generation, tips on using AI Mode and more search news that came out of I/O.

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Search Engine Roundtable

Google Removes Delay For AI Overviews & AI Mode Showing Content From Manual Actions/Deindexed

Since Google launched AI Overviews (and AI Mode), there was an apparent lag or delay from when a web page would be removed from the Google Search index, including after getting a manual action penalty, to when it would also be removed from the AI Overview (or AI Mode). That delay is reportedly gone.

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Search Engine Roundtable

Official: Google Appeals Search Monopoly Ruling

We knew Google would appeal the search monopoly ruling; in fact, Google asked the courts to pause the remedies until the appeal is handled. Google was ruled an illegal monopoly in August 2024 but then the courts refused to break up Google as part of the remedies in September 2025.

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Search Engine Roundtable

Google May 2026 Core Update Landed This Weekend

As you know, Google announced the May 2026 core update on Thursday afternoon and it didn’t take long for the update to be felt by the SEO community. Many, not all, but many, started to feel the impact of this core update over the weekend.

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Search Engine Roundtable

Google Posts Memorial Day 2026 Doodle Logo

Google has historically not posted a Doodle, a special Google logo, for Memorial Day in the United States. Instead, Google has placed an American flag and message below the search box over the past several years. This year, Google has a Doodle above the search box and a flag below the search box, for some reason…

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Search Engine Roundtable

YouTube updates unique reach calculation, adds music for still image posts

The updated metric aims to better account for CTV, which often has multiple viewers per session.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

How I Created a Daily Market Research Routine (15 Minutes Per Day)

This daily market research routine will help you stay disciplined without burning out. It only gets better the more you use it.

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Google Business Profile Rejection Notices With More Details

Generally, when a Google Business Profile email notice gets sent, especially the rejection notices, the details around that rejection are obscure and unknown. But Google seems to be trying harder to get more specific and detailed advice on the notices.

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Search Engine Roundtable

How GenAI Platforms Generate Answers

A useful first step toward genAI visibility is understanding the answer-creation process.

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SEO – Practical Ecommerce

Microsoft Bing Officially Releases AI Guided Image Search Experience

Back in March, we were the first to talk about Microsoft Bing testing a new AI version of Bing image search. Microsoft was not talking about it, but it was clear that this was an AI-curated, categorized, and grouped image search experience. Now, Microsoft has released and announced this version to the public.

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Search Engine Roundtable

We Ran an AI Hackathon for Our Content Team. Here’s What We Built with Agent A

See how our content team used an AI hackathon to build custom tools with Agent A. Discover real SEO automation ideas that streamline research and workflows now.

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Content Marketing – SEO Blog by Ahrefs

X looks to improve its incentives for original creators

The moves will also help X to clean up its data streams which power its AI projects.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

Inimitable Product is the New "Make Great Content" – SparkToro

For 25 years, Google told websites to "just make great content," and they’d sort out the rest. This advice was incomplete, problematic, and reductive, but

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SparkToro

LinkedIn shares video creation tips based on platform trends

LinkedIn has shared tips on posting frequency and video content.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

TikTok announces expanded partnership with Universal Music Group

The deal will help to facilitate expanded discovery for UMG artists in the app.

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Social Media Today – Latest News

How the engineer behind Claude Cowork actually uses Claude | Felix Rieseberg (Anthropic)

Watch now | 🎙️ Felix Rieseberg (Anthropic) shows how he uses Claude to build 3D house walkthroughs from floor plans, track promises automatically, and create a $20 hardware “buddy”

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Agent-To-Agent Marketing Was Just Born on Moltbook

Welcome to Moltbook, the bot-only social network. Learn why influencing AI agents is the inevitable next layer of discovery and digital commerce.

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General Marketing – SEO Blog by Ahrefs

Meta launches new group-focused Forum app

The app separates Facebook Group activity into its own platform.

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Social Media Today – Latest News