Google pulled the spammy AI notebook pages from search
Shared pages from Google's own AI notebook tool are gone from search results after spammers filled them with junk.
Google has removed the shared notebook pages from its AI notebook tool out of search results. Glenn Gabe, who tracked the problem all week, said Google "finally nuked the shared notebook directory from the SERPs (which contained a ton of spam)". Barry Schwartz confirmed it, saying Google dropped all the notebook pages from its index, as expected.
This is the end of the story we covered earlier, when spammers worked out that pages shared from Google's own AI notebook product were being indexed (added to Google's search results) and were ranking for real searches.
Why anyone cared
The pages sat on a Google web address. That borrowed trust let low effort pages show up in results where a normal spam site would not. So people started pumping them out. Gagan Ghotra summed up the fix in one line, saying it is over for the tactic.
Gabe was blunt that the cleanup took too long, writing that Google could have done this much sooner, but better late than never.
What it means for your business
If nobody pitched you on this, you do not need to do anything. Carry on.
If an agency or a freelancer sold you a package that involved publishing content on Google notebook pages to get you ranking, stop paying for it. Those pages are out of the index, so any traffic or visibility they were sending you is gone and it is not coming back.
The wider lesson is the one that keeps repeating. Loopholes that rely on parking your content on someone else's trusted web address work until the platform owner notices. Then they stop working all at once, with no warning and no appeal. The pages were not penalised one by one. The whole directory was dropped.
Anything you want to rank long term needs to live on a web address you control, on pages that actually answer the question somebody typed in. That is slower than a loophole. It is also the only version that is still there next month.
One thing worth checking if you did use these pages. If you linked to a notebook page from your own site, that link now points at something Google no longer shows. Open your site, find those links, and either remove them or point them at a page on your own site that covers the same ground.
Google finally nuked the shared notebook directory from the SERPs (which contained a ton of spam)
and it's over for the NotebookLM black hat #SEO tactic