Which schema types Google actually uses for rich results
As of October 2026, Google's search gallery lists 25 structured data features, including Article, Breadcrumb, Event, Local business, Organization, Product, Review snippet, Software app and Video. FAQ rich results stopped showing on 7 May 2026, How-to rich results were removed in 2023, and the sitelinks search box was retired in 2024. Service, Person and WebPage have no rich result of their own.
Source: Google's search gallery (last updated 16 October 2026) and the Search Central documentation updates log. Google says it does not guarantee that features that consume structured data will appear in search results.
Supported features in the gallery
| Feature | Main schema.org types |
|---|---|
| Article | Article, NewsArticle, BlogPosting |
| Breadcrumb (desktop only since January 2025) | BreadcrumbList |
| Carousel (with Recipe, Course list, Restaurant or Movie) | ItemList |
| Course list | Course |
| Dataset (Dataset Search only, not Google Search) | Dataset |
| Discussion forum | DiscussionForumPosting |
| Education Q&A | Quiz |
| Employer aggregate rating | EmployerAggregateRating |
| Event (physical, publicly bookable events) | Event |
| Image metadata | ImageObject |
| Job posting | JobPosting |
| Local business | LocalBusiness and subtypes |
| Math solver | MathSolver |
| Movie | Movie |
| Organization | Organization and subtypes |
| Product | Product, Offer |
| Profile page | ProfilePage |
| Q&A | QAPage |
| Recipe | Recipe |
| Review snippet | Review, AggregateRating |
| Software app | SoftwareApplication |
| Speakable | SpeakableSpecification |
| Subscription and paywalled content | CreativeWork with isAccessibleForFree |
| Vacation rental | VacationRental |
| Video | VideoObject |
Google also reads WebSite markup on your home page to choose your site name. That isn't a gallery item, but it is worth having.
Retired or restricted features
| Feature | What happened |
|---|---|
| FAQ (FAQPage) | Limited to well-known government and health sites in August 2023; deprecated in May 2026 and no longer shown from 7 May 2026; documentation removed in June 2026. |
| How-to (HowTo) | Limited to desktop in August 2023, then documentation removed in September 2023 because the rich result was no longer shown. |
| Sitelinks search box (WebSite SearchAction) | Documentation removed in November 2024; the feature is no longer available. |
| Course info, estimated salary, ClaimReview (fact check), learning video, special announcement, vehicle listing | Google announced in June 2025 that it was phasing these out. |
| Practice problem | Deprecation notice in November 2025; no longer shown in Google Search results (January 2026 update). |
Common types with no rich result
These are still useful for describing your business and connecting your markup, but Google has no dedicated feature for them:
- Service. Describe what you offer, linked to your Organization with
provider. - Person. Use it for authors and founders; it can appear inside Article author markup and ProfilePage.
- WebPage and its subtypes (AboutPage, ContactPage). Useful glue for
isPartOf,breadcrumbandabout. - HowTo and FAQPage, since their rich results ended.
Rules that apply to every feature
From Google's general structured data guidelines:
- Don't mark up content that is not visible to readers of the page.
- Don't mark up fake reviews or content unrelated to the page.
- Include every required property for the feature; items missing one are not eligible.
- Put the markup on the page it describes.
And from the review snippet guidelines: a business's own pages using LocalBusiness or Organization markup are not eligible for review stars when the business controls the reviews about itself, and fake or undisclosed incentivized reviews are not allowed.
Use the generator to write markup for the supported types most businesses need, and the validator to check it. Schema Institute has a plain-English page for each common type.
Frequently asked questions
- Does Google still show FAQ rich results?
- No. Google deprecated the FAQ rich result in May 2026, saying it would no longer appear in Google Search starting 7 May 2026, and removed the documentation in June 2026.
- Should I remove FAQPage or HowTo markup?
- You don't have to. When Google limited these features in 2023 it said unused structured data does not cause problems for Search, but it also has no visible effect. Keep it only if it accurately describes visible content.
- Is markup without a rich result useless?
- Not necessarily. Google uses structured data to understand page content, and Organization markup can influence the logo and details Google shows. But no markup guarantees a rich result.