Google AI Overview Index Serving Delayed Compared To Web Results – Search Engine Roundtable
Google AI Overviews seems to be slower with removing citations/content from its index that it serves for answers, when compared to web search. This includes when a page or section is noindexed or robots.txt out and when Google deindexes the pages or sections of the site, due to a manual action or some other reason.
Lily Ray noticed how pages blocked by robots.txt still seem to be eligible to appear in AI Overviews, and it even shows the snippet/description. In this case, it doesn’t show in web search but it does show in the AI Overviews.
Here are those screenshots from Lily on X:
Here is the AI Overview showing up:
Then I saw Glenn Gabe post on X that Google was still showing the sites with manual actions over the new site reputation abuse policy update in the AI Overviews but not in the Google search results.
Jason Kilgore spotted this also and wrote on LinkedIn, “Ready for more? Advisor is STILL ranking in AIO for “long term care insurance”. Apparently manual actions do not carry…
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