Google Search Is Down • Hacker News Board

Re: Google Search Is Down

#11

Post by socceroos » Tue, May 12, 2026, 5:11 AM UTC

Continued issues here. It appears to only be the Search service from my experience.

Re: Google Search Is Down

#12

Post by kqp » Tue, May 12, 2026, 5:29 AM UTC

Down for me too, in the Philippines. Maybe it’s not down in the US. I found out when I was using DuckDuckGo just fine while my friend thought the internet was down, that was kind of fun.

Re: Google Search Is Down

#13

Post by reassess_blind » Tue, May 12, 2026, 5:34 AM UTC

Down in Australia

Re: Google Search Is Down

#14

Post by reassess_blind » Tue, May 12, 2026, 5:39 AM UTC

It's down for searches that aren't cached. Searching "Test" works, but searching "asdcjjcwj2jk" doesn't, for example.

Re: Google Search Is Down

#15

Post by morepork » Tue, May 12, 2026, 6:14 AM UTC

I noticed it too, first time I genuinely used bing, and it worked fine.

I don't think I ever remember seeing gws go down, there will be a big postmortem on this

Re: Google Search Is Down

#16

Post by yipbub » Tue, May 12, 2026, 6:31 AM UTC

The status dashboard doesn't seem to be showing anything, but it's been down for a few hours for me.

https://status.search.google.com/

Re: Google Search Is Down

#17

Post by qwertytyyuu » Tue, May 12, 2026, 6:42 AM UTC

oh no my proxy to see if my internet was working went down! I reset my router thinking my internet failed...

Re: Google Search Is Down

#18

Post by rvz » Tue, May 12, 2026, 1:17 PM UTC

morepork wrote: post #15

I noticed it too, first time I genuinely used bing, and it worked fine. I don't think I ever remember seeing gws go down, there will be a big postmortem on this

Looking forward to the postmortem