I have been reluctant to cover the negativity around the Google May 2020 core update because I don’t want it to come across as me complaining because I was hit. But there has been a lot of complaints not just from the SEO community but from normal searchers about a quality drop in Google’s search results since May 2020.

The most notable thread is at Reddit thread with almost 3,000 comments on the thread. The thread starts:

One person responded:

I obviously cannot cite every one of the 3,000 comments in the thread but it is a similar pattern.

Google is aware of the Pinterest thing:

Sites like Stackexchange and Moz Q&A got slammed:

Tons of UGC sites got hit:

But go back to the Reddit thread – scan through all those comments. There is a lot there and I am sure Googlers are reviewing them as well.

I did ask on Twitter about complaints, I had a bunch of people email me examples but I don’t want to share the because they were sent to me in private. I like to post public examples, hence public threads and tweets.

Do you think Google’s May 2020 core update has a negative impact on the overall Google Search quality? Take my Twitter poll:

Forum discussion at Reddit.