Google said Friday that it’s experiencing ongoing indexing issues preventing new content and articles from appearing in Search. This means that when you’re searching for terms on Google, any articles recently published won’t appear in Search. Google says an update will come within 12 hours.
There’s an ongoing issue with indexing in Google Search that’s affecting a large number of sites. Sites may experience delayed indexing. We’re working on identifying the root cause. Next update will be within 12 hours.
— Google Search Central (@googlesearchc) July 15, 2022
Indexing is when Google takes new content published from websites and feeds it into search results.
As of this writing, searching for CNET or CNN articles published within the last hour produces no results. We couldn’t find results when searching for a handful of other sites, such as Bloomberg, The New York Times and Yahoo. The same goes for other search terms.
Google Search not indexing new content — in this example, related to the Pixel 6A.
Screenshot by Imad Khan/CNETOlder content is still searchable.
Google Search results for Pixel 6A.
Screenshot by Imad Khan/CNETThe glitch is causing search to work in odd ways. For some sites, new articles are appearing as published hours ago when they were published much more recently. We tried replicating the below experiment for CNET articles and it did not yield any results.
I think this was either already resolved or it’s a bug with the filter. Looking up multiple brand new articles from @Reuters or @business, they ALL show up as indexed 7 hours ago, even though they were published minutes ago. pic.twitter.com/Fygs5TBr5m
— Ziemek Bućko (@ziemek_bucko) July 15, 2022
Google didn’t respond to a request for comment but instead linked to a tweet from Search Central, an official feed dedicated to giving updates on Search.
