Over the past several days, I have been hearing from some publishers that while their content is being crawled, indexed, and served in Google Search results, some of it is missing from the news tab. It may then later show up in the news tab, much later. I was able to replicate this but it seems completely random.
I asked Google about this last night on Bluesky but I did not hear back. My question was:
Why would a page from WSJ show in the All tab but not News tab?
Here is that example - showing on the web search results:
But it is not showing in the news tab:
I found this for many sites, both large and small publishers. Then later, I even spotted it for my site:
Web search results:
Missing in the news tab:
But this morning, it now shows up:
Again, this is just a couple of examples, but I can replicate this randomly for new publisher content showing up in the web search results but not showing up in the news tab. I cannot figure out a pattern or anything on why this might be happening.
Any ideas? We have seen Google News visibility issues and serving issues before but this feels different...
I want to thank Mayank Parmar from Windows Latest for his help on this.
Forum discussion at Bluesky.
Update: I figured I'd watch this specific story and at first it showed in the news tab and all tab, but then it went missing:
Even this story, it was first in the news tab and now it is gone. Ill add this to the story but this is just so weird @rajanpatel https://t.co/V7o13YsRpy https://t.co/oxZ74npvjQ pic.twitter.com/8VIU2i3Lcm
— Barry Schwartz (@rustybrick) September 3, 2026
Update 2: As of about 4pm ET, it began showing up again in the news tab:
It is showing up again, as of a few hours ago
— Barry Schwartz (@rustybrick.com) September 3, 2026 at 6:33 PM
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