Google Search incident

August 2025 spam update

Minor Resolved View vendor source →

Google Search experienced a minor incident on August 26, 2025 affecting Ranking, lasting 26d 15h. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Aug 26, 2025, 04:00 PM UTC
Resolved
Sep 22, 2025, 07:00 AM UTC
Duration
26d 15h
Detected by Pingoru
Aug 26, 2025, 04:00 PM UTC

Affected components

Ranking

Update timeline

  1. monitoring Aug 26, 2025, 04:02 PM UTC

    Released the August 2025 spam update , which applies globally and to all languages. The rollout may take a few weeks to complete.

  2. resolved Sep 22, 2025, 06:14 AM UTC

    The rollout was complete as of September 22, 2025.