Wouldn't be the first Google product that they killed :)
I'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.
Maybe they'll shut it down. It's become useless, just a heap of commercials and AI-generated rubbish :D
Drastic measures to avoid model degradation because of feedback loops ;)
They're just shutting down cost centers :)
>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?
I 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.
Typo in the title. Should be “Google Search’s indexing has halted”. (More likely not a typo but a transcription error.)
If this in any way would impact revenue, I'm sure it would have become a code yellow in mere instants.
Apparently 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/Gjz5TP3aaDRmKsSWg...