The Google Search App stopped working final evening for a number of hours. Google was fast to repair it in the course of the evening however by then, tons of, if not, hundreds of complaints flooded the help 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 among many screenshots I noticed within the Google Search Assist boards:
The problem began at about midnight final evening and lasted for a number of hours till it was resolved.
You’ll be able to see the non cease complaints within the Google Search Assist boards in regards to the subject should you scroll all the way down to that time-frame. There’s additionally this large Reddit thread with complaints.
9to5Google was the one different web site reporting on this subject, so far as I can inform.
Google wrote:
There’s an ongoing subject with serving in Google Search that is affecting a lot of customers looking out on the Google app on Android. We’re engaged on figuring out the basis trigger. Subsequent replace will probably be inside 12 hours.
That was given a timestamp at 2:07 AM ET however I imagine the problem began a few hours prior.
Google stated the problem was totally resolved at 4:11 AM ET.
Should you seen a dip in your Android site visitors from Google between that point, this can be why.
Discussion board dialogue at Google Net Search Assist and Reddit.
