Google Search seems to have been having indexing or serving issues in the past hour or so. New content from the past hour doesn't seem to be showing up in Google Search results. Content from the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, CNN and other news sites that post content constantly are not showing much or any new pages in the Google search results.
This seems to have started at about 6:15 am ET and has been fixed at about 7:35 am ET.
Even new content from this site isn't showing yet, which is super weird.
Here are screenshots showing the Google search results where I set a site command for these sites and set it to show only content from the past hour. Typically, you would see many pages show up:
There are complaints on X as well:
@googlesearchc @seroundtable @martinibuster Kindly share your insights on the indexing issues
— VENKAT (@VENKATR64182614) August 28, 2026
Second time in Aug 2026 @Google has indexing issue articles filled 1 hour ago still not indexed @JohnMu @googlesearch_in @rustybrick Anyone has any update on same?
— Amandeep Singh (@eransingh) August 28, 2026
This seems like a larger issue than just a few sites.
It might be more of a serving issue because Google Search Console's URL inspection tool shows a page I posted in the past 30 minutes was indexed:
But when I search for it in Google, it does not come up:
Google's Search status page says all is good right now:
Are you noticing widespread indexing issues with Google Search?
Forum discussion at X.
Update: At 7:35 am ET I am starting to see pages within the hour show up, so maybe Google is fixing the issue?
Google Search indexing issue seems fixed now https://t.co/MslRLLQm5T https://t.co/DRulw3e0KK pic.twitter.com/L1ka53o0nu
— Barry Schwartz (@rustybrick) August 28, 2026
