FAQ Rich Results Are Gone
The day’s practical SEO story is FAQ rich results disappearing from Google Search. Google Search Central now says FAQ rich results stopped appearing as of May 7, 2026, with the FAQ Search Console report and Rich Results Test support going away in June, and Search Console API support ending in August. Search Engine Roundtable reported today that this also removes the remaining FAQ display for the government and health sites that still had access.
Search Engine Land and Search Engine Journal both land on the same takeaway: do not panic-delete every FAQ section. The visible dropdown result is gone, but useful Q&A content can still help visitors. If FAQ schema was only there to win extra search-result space, it is now dead weight for Google visibility. If it supports clear page structure, leaving it is not a crisis.
AI Search Keeps Rewiring Clicks
The other pressure system is Google’s push to make AI Overviews and AI Mode look more link-friendly. Google announced more inline links, “explore new angles,” discussion previews, hover previews, and subscription labels. That sounds good, but Search Engine Journal rightly points out the missing piece: Search Console still does not separate AI clicks from normal search clicks, so site owners remain partly blind.
Ranking Weather
Volatility is windy but not storm-level. Today’s partial score is 5.7/10, after completed scores of 6.2, 6.9, and 6.8 over the last three days. That is moderate-high movement, not chaos, but rankings are still shifting enough to watch.
What to Do
- Check FAQ pages for traffic changes, not markup warnings.
- Rewrite FAQs for humans, not rich-result tricks.
- Track AI referrals separately where your analytics can, because Google still is not giving clean reporting.
