The Google Search App stopped working final night time for just a few hours. Google was fast to repair it in the course of the night time however by then, a whole lot, if not, 1000’s of complaints flooded the assist boards and social media.
This impacted a “massive variety of customers looking out on the Google app on Android,” Google confirmed. After they loaded the Google Search App or any of its widgets, a message would pop up that claims “Google retains stopping.”
Right here is one in every of many screenshots I noticed within the Google Search Support forums:
The problem began at about midnight final night time and lasted for just a few hours till it was resolved.
You’ll be able to see the non cease complaints within the Google Search Support forums in regards to the situation if you happen to scroll right down to that timeframe. There’s additionally this large Reddit thread with complaints.
9to5Google was the one different website reporting on this issue, so far as I can inform.
Google wrote:
There’s an ongoing situation with serving in Google Search that is affecting numerous customers looking out on the Google app on Android. We’re engaged on figuring out the basis trigger. Subsequent replace shall be inside 12 hours.
That was given a timestamp at 2:07 AM ET however I consider the difficulty began a few hours prior.
Google stated the difficulty was totally resolved at 4:11 AM ET.
Should you observed a dip in your Android site visitors from Google between that point, this can be why.
Discussion board dialogue at Google Web Search Help and Reddit.
