Google Search serving issue in some locales

 

Google confirmed a data center issue impacting serving some search results in some regions.

Google confirmed an ongoing issue with serving search results in Google Search. This is impacting some locales, Google added.

Google said this is an “ongoing issue” and will update us again “witin 24 hours” with more details.

What Google said. Google wrote:

There’s an ongoing data center issue that may impact serving of some pages in some locales. We’re working on identifying the root cause. The next update will be within 24 hours.

When? This was posted at 5:21 pm ET.

What is a serving issue. A serving issue is when Google Search has issues showing some or all search results to the searcher. This is when Google is unable to show some or all search results it has within its search index to the user based on their query, location or other means.

Why we care. This may impact some publishers, in some regions, with getting Google Search traffic to their websites. It is unclear how widespread this is, but it is large enough for Google to notify us about this.

Update: At 3:22 am ET on October 4th, Google wrote:

We’ve identified an issue with serving and have been working on a fix. The next update will be within 48 hours.

Resolved: Update: At 4:40 pm ET on October 6th, Google said the issue was resolved.