Serper incident

Elevated latency and /goto links again

Resolved after 3 hours 4 minutes, affecting Current status by service (API), on November 6, 2026.

resolved Nov 06, 2026, 09:09 AM UTC

Google tightened its limits again early this morning (from about 05:30 UTC), which slowed searches and left many links as /goto URLs. Fixed: plain queries have real URLs for all results again (likely temporary); for queries with search operators (e.g. site:) we resolve the top three links and return the rest as /goto URLs, which /resolve turns into real URLs.

Started
Nov 06, 2026, 06:05 AM UTC
Resolved
Nov 06, 2026, 09:09 AM UTC
Duration
3h 4m
Detected by Pingoru
Nov 06, 2026, 06:05 AM UTC

Affected components

Current status by service (API)

Update timeline

  1. investigating Nov 06, 2026, 06:05 AM UTC

    Google just made changes again impacting the temporary salutation to resolve the /goto links. We're looking into it.

  2. investigating Nov 06, 2026, 07:20 AM UTC

    We’ve made some (temporary) improvements that restore link resolution for plain queries. For queries with search operators (e.g. site:), we now resolve the top three links and return the rest as /goto URLs.

  3. resolved Nov 06, 2026, 09:09 AM UTC

    Google tightened its limits again early this morning (from about 05:30 UTC), which slowed searches and left many links as /goto URLs. Fixed: plain queries have real URLs for all results again (likely temporary); for queries with search operators (e.g. site:) we resolve the top three links and return the rest as /goto URLs, which /resolve turns into real URLs.

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