by tyingq on 6/21/24, 9:12 AM
by coldtea on 6/21/24, 9:00 AM
Wouldn't be the first Google product that they killed :)
by aelmeleegy on 6/21/24, 8:36 AM
I'm not a search expert but is the index halted, or is there an issue with serving the results? so there are results in the database but for some reason the query that it sent times out or something and nothing comes back.
by huqedato on 6/21/24, 3:29 PM
Maybe they'll shut it down. It's become useless, just a heap of commercials and AI-generated rubbish :D
by groestl on 6/21/24, 9:13 AM
Drastic measures to avoid model degradation because of feedback loops ;)
by nottorp on 6/21/24, 8:49 AM
They're just shutting down cost centers :)
by Peroni on 6/21/24, 9:11 AM
>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.
Is this only affecting news sites then?
by DangitBobby on 6/21/24, 2:26 PM
I saw people in the Twitter thread jumping to the conclusion that this is intentional and a move to surfacing the index through AI instead of public search. Wild how quickly people jump to something malicious and outlandish instead of the default which is, you know, some shit is probably borked.
by leobg on 6/21/24, 7:03 PM
Typo in the title. Should be “Google Search’s indexing has halted”. (More likely not a typo but a transcription error.)
by fifticon on 6/21/24, 11:42 AM
If this in any way would impact revenue, I'm sure it would have become a code yellow in mere instants.