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Breaking News: Google Removes Delay For AI Overviews & AI Mode Showing Content From Manual Actions/Deindexed
Posted by on May 25, 2026 at 12:38 pmH/T to u/barryschwartz for sharing on X:
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.
Glenn Gabe updated us on X saying that based on his tests, he thinks the delay is gone. He wrote:
There are times that sites hit by a manual action, and deindexed, were still showing up in AI Overviews or AI Mode for a few days. There was a lag in the pipeline for some reason, which was super weird. Well, I was checking a site that just got nuked and they are NOT showing in AIOs or AI Mode at all. So I think Google implemented something there to align the various surfaces, including AI experiences like AIOs and AI Mode. Just an interesting observation.
As a reminder, we reported on this delay back in November 2024 and January 2025. So it has been a long ongoing issue.
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Interesting… so, I don’t think I understood the whole TPU shenanigans at Google I/O, but could this be indicative of THAT? Like is this basically confirming instead of AI Mode or AIO being separated that it’s now genuinely integrated with Google’s index?
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I have a client, whose pages are getting indexed & de-indexed & again indexed if I submit in manually on GSC, can anybody help me with why is this happening? It is been happening since march
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I’ve noticed a similar issue too. I updated the contact information on my website a long time ago, but Google AI still hasn’t reflected the changes. There’s definitely a data lag.
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Google as a search engine will just crash out soon.
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what
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