Google has now explained that yesterday’s big search bug is similar to a challenge with its indexing systems.
Google wrote: “On Monday, we detected a challenge with our indexing systems that affected Google’s search results. Once the challenge was identified, it was temporarily resolved through our site reliability engineers and has now been mitigated.”
Confirmation. Here is the tweet confirming the explanation:
Learn more. You can learn more about this challenge and its effect on the sites in our article this morning.
Postscript. Many, adding to me, were not very satisfied with Google’s brief explanation. Gary Illyes of Google tweeted more information about why the indexing formula is important for displaying search results:
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