Google had a brief issue with serving search results this morning, February 25th. Google documented the issue at around 1:30 am ET on Wednesday, February 25th and said it was resolved a minute later. But Google said on the main page the issue was for about 15 minutes.
I assume the serving outage was a bit longer but that is when Google documented it.
Google wrote:
- 24 Feb 2026 - 22:33 PST: Serving was experiencing an issue.
- 24 Feb 2026- 22:34 PST: We fixed the issue with serving search results. There will be no more updates.
It lasted 15 minutes from what the main screen says, but looks like 1 minute in the details. Weird, but worth noting. https://t.co/8knOml3cey pic.twitter.com/go7dNHTbWn
— Glenn Gabe (@glenngabe) February 25, 2026
So if you noticed any weird traffic issues from Google around this time, this may be why.
I should say, I did not see many complaints about this Google Search serving issue.
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