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Tell HN: Google search partial outage while rolling out new search?
Currently performing searches. Sometimes doesn't work at all. Searches now seem to display cards when it works properly instead of urls with text.
- than3 4y agoits working, not sure why you can't access it.
- iconjack 4y agoStill broken for me.
- testplzignore 4y agoDown for me in the US.
- markus_zhang 4y agoIt returns to me
- andrewinardeer 4y agoIndonesia and Australia is up.
- wspeirs 4y agoSame... very intermittent
- liamgriffiths 4y agoSame here... it's returning video results, but nothing else.
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- ubj 4y agoI was just about to ask the same question. I'm in the Northeastern United States. No web pages are returned when I search. Videos, Images, and news kind of work, but nothing else. This is the first time in recent memory I can remember Google being broken like this.
- 1letterunixname 4y agoMid USA here. Wonder if EMEA people can chime in.
- sigbottle 4y agoFirst time in my life I recall Google being down tbh
- quaintdev 4y agoNo issues here in India
- wrycoder 4y agoEven YouTube had a problem for me.
- 1letterunixname 4y agoWhoops. That looks like a SEV1. All on-call prod web SREs to their battle stations.
- markus_zhang 4y agoImagine what if company gives every oncall a Pager and someday it shows a rolling SEV1!!!!
- grumple 4y agoThe results displayed (when it works) seem to be cards which contain results subsets of similar searches. Which is kind of bizarre. Not displaying websites that match the actual search terms is a radical change in functionality. I assume this is the result of some misguided attempt to integrate LLMs into search. Guess we'll see.
- vosper 4y agoWorking fine in New Zealand
- kfajdsl 4y agoYep, down for me too
- white_horseman 4y agoYes, for me too it isnt showing result and just suggesting similar searches and link to relvant images. https://imgur.com/a/CJvMTxu https://imgur.com/a/CJvMTxu
- mv4 4y agoSame for me. Looks like SEV1.
- Kye 4y agoI guess it was my mistake trying to Google SEV1 to figure out what it is in relation to broken Google, so I'll just ask: what's SEV1?
- lxgr 4y agoPresumably the most severe type of incident by Google‘s internal severity classification.
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- retrocryptid 4y agoYou're assuming that Alphabet management categorizes broken search as "disruption of critical customer facing service." They seem to like to cancel services people like, maybe Google decided to EoL search? It's not like it's been useful over the last couple of years. Probably time to email all my Gmail account contacts and give them my post-gmail address.
- dragonwriter 4y agoI get a more results section at the bottom which suggests the existence of main content, but if there is anything under it, its covered by a map with location-based search information.
- cdiddy2 4y agoYes. getting no search results only periphery data
- jalino23 4y agosame
- 1270018080 4y agoGood luck Googlers, get back down from the roof and get to work.
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- JDW1023 4y agosame, searches are empty and only showing the "Related searches". .
- Rapzid 4y agoYeah, if I'm logged in I get no results. Incognito works.
- jlaneve 4y agoYeah, I've noticed the same. It seems like just the search results don't show up - I see video recommendations, additional search recommendations, search results, etc.
- harrisonpage 4y agoworking for me in incognito mode
- vaishnavsm 4y agoJust searched for Docker Swarm, and got [0] one "People also ask" card, one section for images, some related searched, and a button that says "More Results" that doesn't work. Moreover, the formatting of the CSS in the footer also looks weird. Seems like there's definitely been some issue with the deployment. Edit: using brave and chrome on an Intel Mac, same results for both. [0] https://imgur.com/a/CA5IB77 https://imgur.com/a/CA5IB77
- valine 4y agoI find it hilarious that if you ask google if google is down, it simply states “No”, despite showing no results. https://imgur.com/a/AUgMwe2 https://imgur.com/a/AUgMwe2
- brookst 4y agoWell I mean it's not down, it's just... broken. Kind of like when your're nodding off and someone asks if you're asleep. "No," you say, and have no memory of it the next day.
- retrocryptid 4y agoBroken as designed?
- aaron695 4y ago[dead]
- d3nj4l 4y agoYeah, no link results, only images and videos, US East Coast. I imagine they deployed a change to their search that went wrong. Eesh.
- tyn_ 4y agoDown for me as well. I think it might be the first time I'm seeing this, since Google first came online.
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- EduardLev 4y agoYep. Thought it was just for me.
- nhinck2 4y agoNot down for me over here in Australia.
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- sdrinf 4y agoA/B test: "but what happens if we show _only_ ads and products"? /s
- retrocryptid 4y agoWell... I've already switched to DDG and Bing, so it probably doesn't affect me at all.
- nerdponx 4y agoWhen I saw the broken results, I legitimately had to stop and consider if this was what they were trying to do.
- jarrenae 4y agoNope, working fine for me - Los Angeles
- kubectl_h 4y agoOnly showing shopping results here.
- thsbrown 4y agoDefinitely down. Holy smokes!
- bwat48 4y agofor me it works when signed into one google account but not another
- kubectl_h 4y agoI decided to do some queries with DDG while it's down, so I googled "duckduckgo". SMDH.
- PcChip 4y agoyes, google is only showing similar searches right now - also chrome canary is crashing repeatedly for me now too - although probably unrelated
- fshbbdssbbgdd 4y agoYou never know. Maybe they have a test that checks if Chrome can load results on google.com and they disabled the test because Chrome was crashing. And that caused them to fail to detect the search result bug.
- robby1066 4y agoDown for me. Googling "is google down?" hilariously just returns "No."
- parhamn 4y agoFine from South America (Colombia), but when I VPN through the US, no results.
- simlevesque 4y agoIt works for me in Canada
- madmads 4y agoWorking just fine in Northern Europe
- frankfrank13 4y agoyes
- Capricorn2481 4y agoNot working
- cft 4y agoWorks
- Kye 4y agoAll I get is the "people also ask" box and some videos, depending on the search.
- heliostatic 4y agoDown in us east, 9:17 pm local
- fathyb 4y agoDown for me too in France. Kinda remarkable that this is the first time I see a Google Search outage in an entire lifetime of using it.
- essive 4y agoVerizon network outages all over the country this afternoon - maybe that?
- martyvis 4y agoFine here in Australia.
- slymon99 4y agoI’m seeing this on mobile only
- robswc 4y agoSame... never seen that happen before lol. That's a pretty big issue.
- actfrench 4y agothe AI robot takeover has begun :)
- sithlord 4y agono results, USA....wild stuff
- zrail 4y agoInterestingly it works in a private browser window, but when I'm in a tab with a logged-in session it doesn't.
- ubj 4y agoWeird--can confirm this for both Firefox and Chrome (on Ubuntu Linux 20.04). Google works just fine in a private window, but not in a regular window.
- brucethemoose2 4y agoIt also worked through Google search "proxies" like Startpage.
- markus_zhang 4y agoYeah you are right. I'm also able to search in private window.
- BrokenStandards 4y agoUp again now. Was working in private only. Was just about to try logging in an seeing but it came back up before I could. Nothing reported in the search status dashboard https://status.search.google.com/ https://status.search.google.com/ when I checked
- eep_social 4y agoMakes it sound like the mixer which personalizes the (actual) results is having trouble at least across the US which would explain why incognito and various cards and videos from other corpora are working okay.
- PokestarFan 4y agoYep I see nothing
- raimille1 4y agoYes - São Paulo, Brazil
- exolymph 4y agoInterestingly, while google.com isn't working for me, google.ca did return results. I wonder what's up!
- dev_c_110 4y agoSame here. When I'm logged into my account, the results are empty, but in incognito mode everything is fine. First, I thought it was one of my extensions, but now I see other people have this too.
- hislaziness 4y agoWorks fine in Asia.
- toomuchtodo 4y agoUp in Central Florida on T-Mobile.
- ChicagoBoy11 4y agokinda cool, since it just seems broken, not just unavailable.
- ozten 4y agoSearch results have been mostly empty for me for last 30 minutes. https://imgur.com/a/AKIkO7p https://imgur.com/a/AKIkO7p
- dragonwriter 4y agoIts up for me, but slow, not returning main results, and with an odd design.
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- exolymph 4y agoParallel thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35622873 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35622873 Intriguingly, while google.com isn't working for me, google.ca is.
- jeffbee 4y agoVery likely to be because if you change TLDs, you're not logged in any more. I am logged in at google.com but not google.mx etc.
- branperr 4y agoSame, all hail Google's new AI god (plz don't kill me)
- quartz 4y agoGoogle.com renders for me but 0 results for all searches :-O.
- post_break 4y agoIt's broken for me but not in incognito. This is pretty bad.
- justinzollars 4y agoThis is so strange. I had to use bing a few minutes ago.
- white_horseman 4y ago"Is Google down" "No" https://imgur.com/a/JnXHVz9 https://imgur.com/a/JnXHVz9
- mholt 4y agohttps://twitter.com/ejcx_/status/1648495019509317633 https://twitter.com/ejcx_/status/1648495019509317633
- brucethemoose2 4y agoOnly the main search is down, and sporadically for me. Dare I say it, but could this be related to Bard integration?
- ChatGTP 4y agoIt’s become self-aware, strap in!
- Awelton 4y agoI have been having hell with sheets and drive all day.
- retrocryptid 4y agoIt's working for me, but there are no web site results (just images, videos and nonsensical Bard responses) so I think it's working as designed. I think the problem is you're expecting Google to return useful results, which is clearly not Alphabet's objective. [One example of the content on Google search... I searched for "dingo" and one of the responses was "When did dingoes go extinct?" with a paragraph about how dingoes went extinct in Australia 2000 years ago. What color is the sky in your world, Bard?]
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- retrocryptid 4y agoIt's working for me, but there are no web site results (just images, videos and nonsensical Bard responses) so I think it's working as designed. I think the problem is you're expecting Google to return useful results, which is clearly not Alphabet's objective. [One example of the content on Google search... I searched for "dingo" and one of the responses was "When did dingoes go extinct?" with a paragraph about how dingoes went extinct in Australia 2000 years ago. What color is the sky in your world, Bard?]
- tough 4y agoJust here saying hi for posterity
- frankfrank13 4y agoseems to be back
- knaik94 4y agoFixed for me, as of 9:29pm northeast us.
- aaomidi 4y agoLayoffs go BRRRRR
- tzs 4y agoLogging out makes it work normally for me. Logging back in breaks it. There seem to be different kinds of breakage depending on the search. For example if I search for "square roots" it give the top section that suggests other searches, and then a more results thingy at the bottom of the page, which doesn't actually load more results. The count at the top of results appears to be correct though telling me there are 446 million results for my search. If I search for "battery packs" it looks like all I get are the kind of things that normally go in that strip near the top where it gives shopping suggestions. Instead of just being one row like normal it is row after row of them.
- jcpsimmons 4y agoI saw it - incredible to see cracks begin to emerge in the former titans of the industry. FAANG will go the way of Cisco, Motorola, et al.
- fdgsdfogijq 4y agoWhat a glorious downfall of arrogance and smug outdated systems
- alphabet9000 4y agovery weird getting some kind of message from BARD https://i.jollo.org/yq1I6bRc.png https://i.jollo.org/yq1I6bRc.png
- clessg 4y agoOh no, it's clearly sentient! Ahhh!
- throwaway8503 4y agoWe can't say we weren't warned
- smcin 4y agoMove fast and break sentient AIs...
- SeanAnderson 4y agoI was literally in the process of searching for comparisons about MSFT vs Google search dominance as it relates to GPT when this happened. I thought I was using specific queries that were giving me intentionally worse results. Wow! I have never seen a Google outage prior to this. It better be one hell of an update or the writing on the wall is becoming clear.
- retrocryptid 4y agoYou are very clearly the reason Google went down. BAD DEVELOPER! NO BEER PONG! (This is a joke offered in the spirit of humor and is in no way a criticism.)
- exolymph 4y ago> This is a joke offered in the spirit of humor Hacker News moment lol
- NetOpWibby 4y agoYou can’t be too sure around here
- _andrei_ 4y agoTIL https://patents.google.com/patent/US20040188942A1/en https://patents.google.com/patent/US20040188942A1/en
- Invictus0 4y agoIt was down: https://downdetector.com/status/google/ https://downdetector.com/status/google/
- dmix 4y agowas being the keyword it seems
- Invictus0 4y agoIt was down: https://downdetector.com/status/google/ https://downdetector.com/status/google/
- mc32 4y agoWhat a jumbled mess! It's just throwing whatever media it has on any topic you input so it splatters the SERPs with normal results (links), images, video, news, "cards", etc... It hurts!
- seba_dos1 4y agoBut how did you find Hacker News if Google was down??
- lionkor 4y agoBy using Yahoo! Search, of course
- throwaway8503 4y agoworks for me at the time of writing edit: not logged in (usually am not)
- hackernoteng 4y agoI really hope they dont bard-ify the basic search page too much. I like simple, fast tech.
- justinator 4y agoI am doing research on a product I want to buy, and it's just showing buy-now ads. It used to do that right before the regular searches, but now it's buy-now ads, all the way down.
- sneed_chucker 4y agoYes, I noticed this just now.
- justinator 4y agoWhen this settles down, I'm pretty sure search is going to show worst results when it comes to specific questions, and will instead show more generalized results. That's going to be hell for anyone still writing a blog.
- retrocryptid 4y agoBard integration.
- upbeat_general 4y agoYup. I thought it was a userscript bug until I saw this thread.
- Freedom2 4y agoGoogle engineers scrambling to find out how to use their knowledge of if a string is a concatenation of two dictionary words, or other useless LeetCode puzzles, to mitigate their services going down. Reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35545817 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35545817
- lionkor 4y agoWhile snarky, and slightly off beat for HN, I think your comment does carry a good point: Google does hire the best of the best, but by a metric that seems to cause all their products to get worse.
- wnevets 4y agoits also awful looking
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 4y agoYesterday I tried "I'm feeling lucky" and each time the server returned /doodles, the Doodles page listing all the Google Doodles. I no longer felt lucky.
- quaintdev 4y agoIs it far fetched to say that OpenAI is behind this panic at Google? Well Google has been really good for better part of its time but they have been slacking for few years. I think it's good that OpenAI rocked their boat.
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- eastbound 4y agoFunny how flimsy dominance is. In a few years, search quality has gone from top to average, then all of a sudden, it’s going into the “irrelevant” field. Funny how good Microsoft is. Bitbucket is shit, GitLab is barely acceptable, we’ll subscribe to GitHub because it is the best in class. Google’s support is so bad that we’ll subscribe to O365. Now Bing and OpenAI. Suddenly Microsoft is the main actor on the internet again.
- crakenzak 4y agoCan anecdotally attest to this, working at Microsoft is slowly becoming more sought after than Google amongst me and my peers (a few of which work at Google with me).
- tgma 4y agoOnce they get an actual MSFT offer with comparably peanuts in $$$ they'll no longer think the same :) Not to mention imagining having to write design docs in web based Microsoft Word.
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- Fatnino 4y agoI searched for a specific string I copied out of a log file. Google returned only one result and under it where it usually says what parts of your query it ignored to allow this result through it just had my entire query in full. So basically I said "find me this" and Google went "I can't find that, here's something completely random from the internet that has nothing to do with anything"
- matheusmoreira 3y agoIt has everything to do with finding more opportunities to spam you with ads.
- Fatnino 3y agoNormally I would agree, but this result was to a .gov site run by the state of Nevada. I'm not in Nevada.
- retrocryptid 4y agoBut that's what Google does when it's "working."
- moi2388 4y agoNo, if it’s working it’s more like “I can't find that, here's some completely random Advertisement from the internet that has nothing to do with anything"
- reitanqild 4y agoYup. For the last 12 or so years :-/ I naively like to think they chucked a bunch of tests cases at some level when they introduced Google+ (when they threw out the old plus operator to reuse + for Google+ searches) and never recovered after that.
- ipaddr 4y agoMaybe those layoffs are having an effective.
- nothrowaways 4y agoI don't know why they don't just put all this LLM feature as beta or "AI". They should keep google as organic search engine.
- ajaimk 4y agoYup. I had it happen on Safari but not Chrome. But it's back to normal now.
- foobarbecue 4y agoI was getting blank search result pages on Google.com in chrome so I switched to Firefox and it was fine over there for a while but then those searches started coming back blank too.
- usr1106 4y agoGoogle had some problems already 10 hours ago. When I tried to log in to our Google hosted work email I got an error page with a link to a ststus page. First time for the 5+ years we have been using it. I expected to see all green on that status page as it often is on such pages especially for AWS. To my surprise there was an amber. Don't recall what service it was, it sounded unrelated to office suite or whatever product we use. 2 minutes later I was able to log in.
- larsrc 4y agohttps://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-search-outage-prevents-some-from-seeing-search-results/ https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-search-o...
- jrochkind1 4y agoi had that experience last night too. I figured it was just me. Apparently it was very widespread?
- omniglottal 4y agoWorst of alll, DDG's "!sp" service isn't working now! :-O