Cosmic Rays & Crawlers: When Google Search is under the weather

How does Google address incidents that affect Search results, like indexing problems or crawling issues? Join John, Lizzi, and Gary in this episode of Search off the Record as the team discusses internal processes Google uses to detect, investigate, and communicate these incidents to users and website owners. 

Resources:

Episode transcript → https://goo.gle/sotr075-transcript

Google Search Status Dashboard → https://goo.gle/3Vcs9pi

Lifecycle of an issue → https://goo.gle/3KsgjCe

SRE Playbook's chapter on troubleshooting → https://goo.gle/3V9NPCj

 

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Subscribe to Google Search Channel → https://goo.gle/SearchCentral

Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team.

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Speaker: John Mueller, Lizzi Sassman, Gary Illyes

Products Mentioned: Search Console - General