{"id":253178,"date":"2023-10-08T06:23:42","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T10:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=309423"},"modified":"2025-07-01T18:01:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T01:01:54","slug":"google-has-suffered-a-bug-that-prevents-it-from-doing-what-it-does-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/google-has-suffered-a-bug-that-prevents-it-from-doing-what-it-does-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Google has suffered a bug that prevents it from doing what it does best"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, anything that isn&#8217;t on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.softonic.com\/articles\/your-google-searches-will-be-more-efficient-with-this-latest-update?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Google Search<\/a><\/strong> practically doesn&#8217;t exist. Yes, there are plenty of other search engines on the Internet, including Microsoft&#8217;s Bing, but<strong> Google is for all intents and purposes the Coke of the search engine world. <\/strong>Who wants to drink Pepsi when you can drink something that tastes better? (No one paid me to say this, let&#8217;s be clear).<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"sc-card-program\">\r\n  <div class=\"sc-card-program__body\">\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row clearfix\">\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-logo\">\r\n        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__img\" alt=\"Google Chrome\" src=\"https:\/\/images.sftcdn.net\/images\/t_app-icon-s\/p\/f875d630-96d4-11e6-b152-00163ed833e7\/2845731368\/chrome-logo\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\">\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-title\">\r\n        <span class=\"sc-card-program__title\">Google Chrome<\/span>\r\n        <a class=\"sc-card-program__button sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/chrome.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DOWNLOAD<\/a>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-rating\">\r\n        <svg class=\"rating-score__content\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" version=\"1.1\" x=\"0\" y=\"0\" viewbox=\"0 0 50 50\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 50 50\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><path class=\"rating-score__background rating-score--good\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><path class=\"rating-score__value rating-score__value--0\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-dashoffset=\"0\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><text class=\"rating-score__number\" content=\"\" text-anchor=\"middle\" transform=\"matrix(1 0 0 1 25 31.0837)\" data-auto=\"app-user-score\"><\/text><\/svg>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <span class=\"sc-card-program__description\"><\/span>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__bigpic\" src=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\">\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <a class=\"sc-card-program__link track-link sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/chrome.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But for something to exist in Google, <strong>the company must first index it<\/strong>, a process that adds or updates the search results of all the websites you see every day. But even the great and almighty <strong>Google is not spared <\/strong>from occasional glitches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the night of October 6, several news publishers reported that their <strong>content was not being indexed correctly in Google<\/strong>, something that greatly affected the visibility of their articles on the Internet. Shortly after, Google confirmed that there <strong>was indeed a problem with the indexing of content.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-img.sftcdn.net\/sft\/articles\/auto-mapping-folder\/sites\/2\/2023\/02\/google-chatgot-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-270671\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;There is an issue that is delaying the indexing of recently published content,&#8221; <strong>Danny Sullivan<\/strong>, a liaison agent in Google&#8217;s Search division, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/searchliaison\/status\/1710081976865361936\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">explained <\/a><\/strong>on Twitter. &#8220;We are working to identify the root cause. You can track progress here in the Google Search status dashboard.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Throughout the night, several websites continued to experience problems with the new content they published. According to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/searchengineland.com\/google-may-be-having-issues-indexing-new-content-for-the-past-few-hours-432966\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">Search Engine Land<\/a><\/strong>, the problem did not lie in the indexing, <strong>but rather in the search service itself<\/strong>, since certain links to new articles that <strong>did not appear in the search did appear as indexed by Google Search Console.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"sc-card-program\">\r\n  <div class=\"sc-card-program__body\">\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row clearfix\">\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-logo\">\r\n        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__img\" alt=\"Google Chrome\" src=\"https:\/\/images.sftcdn.net\/images\/t_app-icon-s\/p\/f875d630-96d4-11e6-b152-00163ed833e7\/2845731368\/chrome-logo\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\">\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-title\">\r\n        <span class=\"sc-card-program__title\">Google Chrome<\/span>\r\n        <a class=\"sc-card-program__button sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/chrome.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DOWNLOAD<\/a>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-rating\">\r\n        <svg class=\"rating-score__content\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" version=\"1.1\" x=\"0\" y=\"0\" viewbox=\"0 0 50 50\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 50 50\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><path class=\"rating-score__background rating-score--good\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><path class=\"rating-score__value rating-score__value--0\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-dashoffset=\"0\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><text class=\"rating-score__number\" content=\"\" text-anchor=\"middle\" transform=\"matrix(1 0 0 1 25 31.0837)\" data-auto=\"app-user-score\"><\/text><\/svg>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <span class=\"sc-card-program__description\"><\/span>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__bigpic\" src=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\">\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <a class=\"sc-card-program__link track-link sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/chrome.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fortunately,<strong> the problem is now fixed<\/strong>, and content posted as of this morning should appear without issue in Google search. &#8220;On October 5, 2023 we encountered an issue that slowed the indexing of some content from 10:30am to 4:20pm PDT. We believe this issue is now resolved,&#8221; stated the Google Search Console Twitter account at 8 a.m. today, October 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google suffered a problem in content indexing that prevented the correct display of new articles in the search results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9256,"featured_media":253179,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":1},"categories":[1015],"tags":[2359],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-253178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-app-subdomain-redirectiongoogle-chrome"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9256"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":317399,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253178\/revisions\/317399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253178"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=253178"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=253178"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=253178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}