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Google search partial outage while rolling out new search?

 1 year ago
source link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35622847
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Google search partial outage while rolling out new search?

Google search partial outage while rolling out new search?
89 points by grumple 1 hour ago | hide | past | favorite | 35 comments
Currently performing searches. Sometimes doesn't work at all. Searches now seem to display cards when it works properly instead of urls with text.
Just 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

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I 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

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Well 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.

I 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.
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Very 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.
I 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.
Same... never seen that happen before lol. That's a pretty big issue.
When 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.
It's broken for me but not in incognito. This is pretty bad.
Yup. I thought it was a userscript bug until I saw this thread.
works for me at the time of writing

edit: not logged in (usually am not)

What a glorious downfall of arrogance and smug outdated systems
This is so strange. I had to use bing a few minutes ago.
Same 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.
Same, all hail Google's new AI god (plz don't kill me)
I really hope they dont bard-ify the basic search page too much. I like simple, fast tech.
Same here... it's returning video results, but nothing else.
Yeah, if I'm logged in I get no results. Incognito works.
All I get is the "people also ask" box and some videos, depending on the search.
same, searches are empty and only showing the "Related searches". .
The 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.
for me it works when signed into one google account but not another
What 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!

Google 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

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