Google Search incident

March 2026 spam update

Minor Resolved View vendor source →

Google Search experienced a minor incident on March 24, 2026 affecting Ranking, lasting 19h 30m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Mar 24, 2026, 07:00 PM UTC
Resolved
Mar 25, 2026, 02:30 PM UTC
Duration
19h 30m
Detected by Pingoru
Mar 24, 2026, 07:00 PM UTC

Affected components

Ranking

Update timeline

  1. monitoring Mar 24, 2026, 07:18 PM UTC

    Released the March 2026 spam update , which applies globally and to all languages. The rollout may take a few days to complete.

  2. resolved Mar 25, 2026, 02:39 PM UTC

    The rollout was complete as of March 25, 2026.