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Google Search is indexing has halted
- aelmeleegy 2y agoI'm not a search expert but is the index halted, or is there an issue with serving the results? so there are results in the database but for some reason the query that it sent times out or something and nothing comes back.
- wrzuteczka 2y agoHow are we supposed to know, being outside of Google?
- aelmeleegy 2y agoyea fair point, the person who posted the tweet says the indexing stopped, I'm just highlighting there's probably another reason why that's case.
- coldtea 2y agoBy being aware of some leaked information that's not already on TFA, that we heard/read elsewhere, DUH! Besides, several people on HN are inside of FAANG companies like Google - and they often share internal stuff and gossip.
- amelius 2y agoMaybe if someone recently spotted their crawler somewhere.
- nottorp 2y agoThey're just shutting down cost centers :)
- coldtea 2y agoWouldn't be the first Google product that they killed :)
- aelmeleegy 2y agonothing is safe from the google graveyard!
- Peroni 2y ago>Sites like the Wall Street Journal, NY Times, CNN, Forbes, and others are showing very few new pages being indexed in the past hour by Google Search. Is this only affecting news sites then?
- vonunov 2y agoI assume they just happened to scoop this one because they probably obsessively monitor the SEO metrics (including indexed pages) and were uniquely positioned to immediately report on it to a large audience
- tyingq 2y agoApparently now fixed: "20 Jun 2024 22:06 PDT We identified and fixed the issue with indexing. Sites may still experience some delayed indexing until the previously affected URLs have been reprocessed. There will be no more updates." https://status.search.google.com/incidents/Gjz5TP3aaDRmKsSWgWF4 https://status.search.google.com/incidents/Gjz5TP3aaDRmKsSWg...
- beardyw 2y ago6 minutes earlier" "Google is investigating reports about delayed indexing in Google Search. We're working on identifying the root cause. Next update will be within 12 hours." I doubt they did it in 6 minutes!
- viraptor 2y agoIt's possible, if it was some silly omission. Also, it takes a few minutes before a status like that is posted in the first place. (Possibly different teams)
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- viraptor 2y agoWhat does that have in common with the topic?
- RIMR 2y agoNothing, just another person who absolutely has to bring up some sort of unrelated politics in every conversation. If it's not Russia/Ukraine, it's Israel/Palestine, and while those topics are important, I wish people would back off and stop injecting these topics into everything else.
- nostrademons 2y ago
- groestl 2y agoDrastic measures to avoid model degradation because of feedback loops ;)
- fifticon 2y agoIf this in any way would impact revenue, I'm sure it would have become a code yellow in mere instants.
- DangitBobby 2y agoI saw people in the Twitter thread jumping to the conclusion that this is intentional and a move to surfacing the index through AI instead of public search. Wild how quickly people jump to something malicious and outlandish instead of the default which is, you know, some shit is probably borked.
- chatmasta 2y agoSure, but it’s probably not a coincidence that this outage occurred shortly after their rollout of AI results. One could reasonably speculate that Google added some extra work to their indexing process (e.g. to create embeddings), and underestimated the impact of this change on resource consumption.
- huqedato 2y agoMaybe they'll shut it down. It's become useless, just a heap of commercials and AI-generated rubbish :D
- leobg 2y agoTypo in the title. Should be “Google Search’s indexing has halted”. (More likely not a typo but a transcription error.)