Profound incident

Perplexity and AI Overviews are impacted

Resolved after 4 days 5 hours, affecting Answer Engine Insights: Platforms (Perplexity) and Answer Engine Insights: Platforms (Google AI Overviews), on September 24, 2026.

resolved Sep 29, 2026, 03:00 AM UTC

Resolved: Data collection from Google AI Overviews has been fully restored and is up to date

Started
Sep 24, 2026, 09:23 PM UTC
Resolved
Sep 29, 2026, 03:00 AM UTC
Duration
4d 5h
Detected by Pingoru
Sep 24, 2026, 09:23 PM UTC

Affected components

Answer Engine Insights: Platforms (Perplexity)Answer Engine Insights: Platforms (Google AI Overviews)

Update timeline

  1. investigating Sep 24, 2026, 09:23 PM UTC

    Our data collection from Perplexity and Google AI Overview are impacted from today, affecting Visibility Scores and Citation rates. We are actively working to restore this

  2. investigating Sep 27, 2026, 03:27 PM UTC

    Data collection from Perplexity has been restored and is fully up to date. We are continuing to work on restoring Google AI Overviews and will share another update once it's resolved.

  3. resolved Sep 29, 2026, 03:00 AM UTC

    Resolved: Data collection from Google AI Overviews has been fully restored and is up to date

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