Sept 15, 2024 - Serving Issue Incident Overnight & Testing Results

Day 5 of Year 4 of the Indexation Research Project

Hello and welcome to the Crawl or No Crawl report for today.

FYI Overnight there was an incident in the Serving Subsystem. It posted on the Search status dashboard overnight and was resolved approx 2 hours later.

“[an] issue with serving in Google Search that's affecting a large number of users searching on the Google app on Android.” Source

Since it was specific to the Google app on Android, I presume that that most trackers do not run on the google app on an android system - but just in case you do not see what you expect, don’t assume your site is in trouble…just yet.

Today I’m going to share what’s going on the system as well as the latest testing results. In a twist on the typical test, which typically is to test content that SHOULD go through all the indexation system, I tested twice this past week with content that I was 99.9% would NOT get served.

What happened?