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Google Search Broke For 12 Hours On A Query


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It is rare to see Google bug out, not work, when you try to use it. But yesterday starting around 3pm EDT through this morning at 3am EDT Google could not give you search results for the query [compare the market]. It is not clear why it was broken, but it was for about 12 hours - which is really unheard of.

 

I covered it last night at Search Engine Land but it is so unusual, I want to share it with you here. We've probably all seen the error once or twice in our life, but typically a refresh would remove the error in Google. But in this case, a refresh did not fix it.

 

Instead you got this:

 

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Why? I have no idea. I suspect something, maybe a feature or some weird snippet, made Google chock on the result and fail. There was a delay, Google was trying to return results but then it failed.

 

At first, Google didn't realize it was an issue:

 

Read the full article here.

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