The time filter in Google Search broke a few days ago

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Post by latexr » Sun, Aug 02, 2026, 8:48 AM UTC

The time filter in Google Search broke a few days ago
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Re: The time filter in Google Search broke a few days ago

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Post by vintagedave » Sun, Aug 02, 2026, 9:21 AM UTC

Sometimes I wonder what testing these giant companies do for features.

A week ago Facebook's language translation broke. Results come back in the original language or a mix. How could no-one notice?

Re: The time filter in Google Search broke a few days ago

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Post by chrisjj » Sun, Aug 02, 2026, 9:27 AM UTC

vintagedave wrote: post #2

Sometimes I wonder what testing these giant companies do for features. A week ago Facebook's language translation broke. Results come back in the original language or a mix. How could no-one notice?

Or they noticed but cannot be bothered to fix.

Re: The time filter in Google Search broke a few days ago

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Post by buakaw_ » Sun, Aug 02, 2026, 9:29 AM UTC

vintagedave wrote: post #2

Sometimes I wonder what testing these giant companies do for features. A week ago Facebook's language translation broke. Results come back in the original language or a mix. How could no-one notice?

"and we increased test coverage by 10% on Q3" doesn't get you promoted unfortunately

Re: The time filter in Google Search broke a few days ago

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Post by PunchyHamster » Sun, Aug 02, 2026, 10:19 AM UTC

They probably also sent AI on bug hunting quest there too like they were bragging for Chrome...

Re: The time filter in Google Search broke a few days ago

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Post by StilesCrisis » Sun, Aug 02, 2026, 10:30 AM UTC

vintagedave wrote: post #2

Sometimes I wonder what testing these giant companies do for features. A week ago Facebook's language translation broke. Results come back in the original language or a mix. How could no-one notice?

Google typically has very, very thorough tests.

I don't have any insider information here, but it's likely that the creator of this menu is long gone (it looks old!) and this feature is in maintenance mode. Someone--or a bot--just trying to keep the build green may have disabled the test without understanding that it was pointing to a real issue.

Re: The time filter in Google Search broke a few days ago

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Post by StilesCrisis » Sun, Aug 02, 2026, 10:33 AM UTC

buakaw_ wrote: post #4

vintagedave wrote: post #2

Sometimes I wonder what testing these giant companies do for features. A week ago Facebook's language translation broke. Results come back in the original language or a mix. How could no-one notice?

"and we increased test coverage by 10% on Q3" doesn't get you promoted unfortunately

No, but if you found real issues along the way, it's enough to get a decent review. Search takes their five nines seriously.

Re: The time filter in Google Search broke a few days ago

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Post by embedding-shape » Sun, Aug 02, 2026, 10:44 AM UTC

vintagedave wrote: post #2

Sometimes I wonder what testing these giant companies do for features. A week ago Facebook's language translation broke. Results come back in the original language or a mix. How could no-one notice?

> testing these giant companies do for features

I think they all got rid of QA, and developers don't have enough time to actually care about what they're building/fixing.

GitHub/Microsoft is incredible at this. The feature for selecting and closing multiple PRs was broken for weeks even after I and others reported it. I saw duplicate "A user you've blocked has contributed to this repository" warnings (two of them, one above the other) for weeks too before that was fixed.

I've stopped reporting issues as well, as it seems to have no effect on how quick it takes, so I don't think it's an issue of not being aware of them.

Re: The time filter in Google Search broke a few days ago

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Post by embedding-shape » Sun, Aug 02, 2026, 10:45 AM UTC

StilesCrisis wrote: post #6

vintagedave wrote: post #2

Sometimes I wonder what testing these giant companies do for features. A week ago Facebook's language translation broke. Results come back in the original language or a mix. How could no-one notice?

Google typically has very, very thorough tests. I don't have any insider information here, but it's likely that the creator of this menu is long gone (it looks old!) and this feature is in maintenance mode. Someone--or a bot--just trying to keep the build green may have disabled the test without understanding that it was pointing to a real issue.

> trying to keep the build green may have disabled the test without understanding

> Google typically has very, very thorough tests.

Yeah, sure sounds like they have figured out this whole testing thing perfectly well, if that's the case :)

Re: The time filter in Google Search broke a few days ago

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Post by latexr » Sun, Aug 02, 2026, 11:01 AM UTC

embedding-shape wrote: post #8

vintagedave wrote: post #2

Sometimes I wonder what testing these giant companies do for features. A week ago Facebook's language translation broke. Results come back in the original language or a mix. How could no-one notice?

> testing these giant companies do for features I think they all got rid of QA, and developers don't have enough time to actually care about what they're building/fixing. GitHub/Microsoft is incredible at this. The feature for selecting and closing multiple PRs was broken for weeks even after I and others reported it. I saw duplicate "A user you've blocked has contributed to this repository" warnings (two of them, on…

Something I’ve also noticed is the number badge for open issues and pull requests not disappearing for a long while.

This is particularly annoying to me as I address everything in my repos quickly, but then the badge remains there making me think something new was opened, and then I keep clicking to find nothing. Or in one case I ignored something which was there because I thought it was bugging out as usual.