Tell HN: Google search partial outage while rolling out new search?

179 points by grumple ↗ HN
Currently performing searches. Sometimes doesn't work at all. Searches now seem to display cards when it works properly instead of urls with text.

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Same... very intermittent
Same here... it's returning video results, but nothing else.
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same, searches are empty and only showing the "Related searches". .
Yeah, if I'm logged in I get no results. Incognito works.
Yeah, I've noticed the same. It seems like just the search results don't show up - I see video recommendations, additional search recommendations, search results, etc.
Just searched for Docker Swarm, and got [0] one "People also ask" card, one section for images, some related searched, and a button that says "More Results" that doesn't work. Moreover, the formatting of the CSS in the footer also looks weird. Seems like there's definitely been some issue with the deployment.

Edit: using brave and chrome on an Intel Mac, same results for both.

[0] https://imgur.com/a/CA5IB77

I find it hilarious that if you ask google if google is down, it simply states “No”, despite showing no results.

https://imgur.com/a/AUgMwe2

Well I mean it's not down, it's just... broken.

Kind of like when your're nodding off and someone asks if you're asleep. "No," you say, and have no memory of it the next day.

I was just about to ask the same question. I'm in the Northeastern United States. No web pages are returned when I search. Videos, Images, and news kind of work, but nothing else.

This is the first time in recent memory I can remember Google being broken like this.

First time in my life I recall Google being down tbh
Even YouTube had a problem for me.
Whoops. That looks like a SEV1. All on-call prod web SREs to their battle stations.
Imagine what if company gives every oncall a Pager and someday it shows a rolling SEV1!!!!
The results displayed (when it works) seem to be cards which contain results subsets of similar searches. Which is kind of bizarre. Not displaying websites that match the actual search terms is a radical change in functionality. I assume this is the result of some misguided attempt to integrate LLMs into search. Guess we'll see.
Working fine in New Zealand
Yes, for me too it isnt showing result and just suggesting similar searches and link to relvant images. https://imgur.com/a/CJvMTxu
Same for me. Looks like SEV1.
I guess it was my mistake trying to Google SEV1 to figure out what it is in relation to broken Google, so I'll just ask: what's SEV1?
Presumably the most severe type of incident by Google‘s internal severity classification.
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You're assuming that Alphabet management categorizes broken search as "disruption of critical customer facing service."

They seem to like to cancel services people like, maybe Google decided to EoL search? It's not like it's been useful over the last couple of years.

Probably time to email all my Gmail account contacts and give them my post-gmail address.

I get a more results section at the bottom which suggests the existence of main content, but if there is anything under it, its covered by a map with location-based search information.
Yes. getting no search results only periphery data
Good luck Googlers, get back down from the roof and get to work.
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Yeah, no link results, only images and videos, US East Coast. I imagine they deployed a change to their search that went wrong. Eesh.
Down for me as well. I think it might be the first time I'm seeing this, since Google first came online.
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Yep. Thought it was just for me.
Not down for me over here in Australia.
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A/B test: "but what happens if we show _only_ ads and products"? /s
Well... I've already switched to DDG and Bing, so it probably doesn't affect me at all.
When I saw the broken results, I legitimately had to stop and consider if this was what they were trying to do.