Google Search is once again having indexing issues where new content is not showing in the index for all sites. Google wrote this is about a “delayed indexing in Google Search” that is “affecting a small number of sites.”
Google posted this on its Search Status dashboard at 6:38 PM ET:
Google is investigating reports about delayed indexing in Google Search that’s affecting a small number of sites. We’re working on identifying the root cause. Next update will be within 12 hours.
I am not seeing true examples of this specific issue posted in the Google support forums but I am seeing it when I restrict Google Search to show me content within the hour from some large news publishers:
Here are the previous Google Search bugs I covered over the past year:
Forum discussion at X.
Update: At 7:25 PM ET, Google seems to be recovering, and I see more new content being indexed and served in Google Search. A lot of the screenshots above, are now showing many more pages indexed from those sites within the past hour.
Plus, the story I wrote on this at Search Engine Land is indexed:
But this page, even 20 or so minutes after posting it, is still not indexed according to Google Search Console (or a query like this):
Update 25 minutes later, this story is now showing up in Google’s search results:
