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Google Suffers Major Glitch in Search Results - August 10, 2020
Anyone seeing a significant decrease in traffic today ? French Websites
""OK Google, stop the #*$!""
I had a huge drop on Saturday, Sunday and this morning. Only now at lunch did I notice a significant improvement.
Seems like a big update in progress here in Italy.
Every niche I follow is messed up. Shops are gone, affiliate sites have disappeared, serps are full of Amazon, ebay and news sites.
wow insane big update here in Norway, never seen so big change
I have to chime in, I have not seen this much chatter in the SEO community on an update in a long time.
Dominant sites for several years have been demoted, others have come in from absolutely nowhere.
I'm going to assume we have some sort of shake-up (formerly dance) going on however why, for my sector which was looking fairly good, makes me wonder ... sleep first and check in the morning when it ought to be a bit more settled.
Nothing can be done until then:-)
I can confirm for sure it is an old index.
Well it didn't last long 11 to 12pm I was down to -14%. Now things look like they are back to normal.
Google suffered a glitch that negatively impacted search quality. This was not an update. It was a mistake of some kind....
Google’s search glitch appeared to affect all languages, countries, and niches. It affected everything from local services to recipes. Ecommerce sites reported extreme fluctuations in rankings.
UPDATE at 11:55pm ET: Google has told me this was a glitch, a bug, and it should be resolved. There are more details and examples of this being a bug and being fixed over here.
To be honest, this reminds me of the old days of when Google would release Penguin or Panda updates. The chatter in the time period is off the scales. Either this is a massive Google search bug or Google pushed out something serious with its ranking algorithm in search.
@rustybrick there's an update per 10 Aug, seems like a big-impact update on SERP @seroundtable @sejournal
@rustybrick huge update going on in Italy and other European countries, seems like Google applied a filter to exclude affiliates and small shops from serps. 1st page made by amazon+ebay+news sites. Hope this is a test / bug.
Gary Illyes
@methode
The indexing system, Caffeine, does multiple things:
1. ingests fetchlogs,
2. renders and converts fetched data,
3. extracts links, meta and structured data,
4. extracts and computes some signals,
5. schedules new crawls,
6. and builds the index that is pushed to serving.
Gary Illyes
@methode
Don't oversimplify search for it's not simple at all: thousands of interconnected systems working together to provide users high quality and relevant results. Throw a grain of sand in the machinery and we have an outage like yesterday.
--- and small shops
...seems like Google applied a filter to exclude affiliates and small shops from serps.
Just to catch you all up, on Monday afternoon we saw some insane changes to the search results rankings. Google confirmed later it was a bug and things were back to normal. Google then explained the bug stemmed from the indexing system. But what does that mean?
Here is Google's response on Twitter with what happened "On Monday we detected an issue with our indexing systems that affected Google search results. Once the issue was identified, it was promptly fixed by our Site Reliability Engineers and by now it has been mitigated."
It was a glicht (sic) yes, but it was probably caused by a test, which is what they do not mention.
