Serper experienced a major incident on August 25, 2026 affecting Current status by service (API), lasting 5h 14m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Current status by service (API)
Update timeline
- investigating Aug 25, 2026, 01:52 AM UTC
We're observing increased failure rate for Google News queries with search operators (e.g. site:).
- investigating Aug 25, 2026, 02:48 AM UTC
We’re noticing elevated error rates for /news queries containing search operators (e.g. site:). We’re looking into it.
- resolved Aug 25, 2026, 08:02 AM UTC
Google appears to have made a permanent change affecting /news queries with search operators (e.g. site:). We’ve implemented a workaround, though snippets are currently unavailable for these queries