All the slides + JC's coverage. Some good nuggets here -> Google Search Central Live Toronto Slides (April 2026)

*Crawl vs. Index: “Crawled – Currently not indexed” is rarely a technical rendering issue; it’s usually a quality signal. Google may have tried the content and decided it “wasn’t good,” or it’s a canonical/duplicate issue. It could also sometimes be 404s, redirect issues or robots.txt issues
*Scaled Content Abuse: This is an important algorithm that could explain AI-generated content traffic drops, rather than the use of AI itself. Google wasn’t against AI per-se, but there are safeguards against scaling content and safeguard against what they decide to index.
*AI Overview (AIO) & “Agentic” Search
Reporting Gap: There wasn’t much new shared regarding AI Overview and AI Mode tracking; the team confirmed they are working on something but provided no timeline.
*Gemini in AIO / AI Mode vs. Gemini in App. They both use the same model, but Google Search “shapes” Gemini differently in search than the standalone app. Results from AIO and AI Mode are expected to be different
*There is no benefit in converting your site to Markdown for LLM or SEO purposes.
*There is no benefit to creating a llms.txt file for SEO

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