Here is a confusing one that needs a clear answer. FAQ rich results stopped showing in Google Search on May 7, 2026, across every type of site. The little expandable questions under the result are gone. Search Console reporting and the Rich Results Test support are being removed through June, and API support ends in August 2026.
A lot of site owners read that and rushed to strip the FAQ Page schema from their pages. That is the wrong move. Google confirmed it still uses FAQ Page schema to understand what a page covers. Pages that keep it are reported to be 3.2 times more likely to appear in AI Overviews.
So the visual result died. The content signal lives on. This is the pattern to internalize for 2026. Google keeps killing the flashy on page features while quietly using the same structured data to feed its AI answers. The reward moved from a blue link decoration to a citation inside an AI summary.
The schema crowd in r/big seo spent the week sorting fact from panic on this exact point, and the consensus matched Google’s guidance. Keep your schema. Do not chase the dead feature.
What to do this week. Leave your FAQ Page markup in place. Make sure the questions match real things people ask. Keep the answers short and factual at the top, since that is the format AI systems lift cleanly. The visible reward changed. The work did not. Structured, parsable content is still how you get understood and cited.
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