Google Search may be having a new indexing or serving (or both) bug where it is now showing new content from sites that are creating new content. 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.
While all of these sites have produced dozens of stories in the past hour, most are showing 0 to 10 new content (URLs) in the Google Search index in the past hour.
Google has not posted any issue yet in its Search Status Dashboard and I do not see massive complaints yet but I received a notice on X about this (that post was deleted) but I still see the issue.
Here are some examples:
– site:cnn.com – within hour – 2 results:
– site:wsj.com – within hour 2 results:
WSJ down to nothing:
– site:nytimes.com – within hour 10 results:
– site:hollywoodreporter.com – within hour – 2 results:
– site:forbes.com – within hour 0 results:
I often see indexing complaints about Google Search but I rarely see it on sites this big that produce a lot of content.
We last had a larger issue like this in Janaury 2024, then in December 2023, October 2023 and then many more over the years.
Are any of you seeing this?
Forum discussion at X.
