Google Search incident

September 2026 spam update

Minor Resolved View vendor source →

Google Search experienced a minor incident on September 24, 2026 affecting Ranking, lasting 13d 15h. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Sep 24, 2026, 04:15 PM UTC
Resolved
Oct 08, 2026, 08:00 AM UTC
Duration
13d 15h
Detected by Pingoru
Sep 24, 2026, 04:15 PM UTC

Affected components

Ranking

Update timeline

  1. monitoring Sep 24, 2026, 04:15 PM UTC

    Released the September 2026 spam update , which applies globally and to all languages. The rollout may take up to two weeks to complete.

  2. resolved Oct 08, 2026, 08:37 AM UTC

    The rollout was complete as of October 8, 2026.