[Google Search API] The "Site:" Operator is Ignored

Summary

SerpApi says its Google Search API is returning results from domains outside those specified by the site: operator. The provider's latest update, on 2026-11-09, states the incident is still under investigation.

Written by anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5 from SerpApi's own updates.

What to do

• Check whether you use SerpApi Search API. Check your stack

  Paste a package.json, lockfile, Terraform or a list of domains at down.guide/stack to see every provider you depend on.

• Switch to another region or a fallback provider while it is open, if you have one.

  Otherwise back off retries and queue work, so you don't add load while it recovers.

• Watch SerpApi's own updates; this page re-reads them every minute.

• Subscribe to SerpApi's feed to hear about the next one first. RSS feed

  https://down.guide/feed?provider=serpapi works in Slack (/feed subscribe), Discord feed bots and any RSS reader.

Updates from SerpApi 2

1. investigatingNov 3, 2026, 8:45 PM UTC

   We are currently investigating confirmed reports that our Google Search API is consistently returning results from domains outside those specified by the site: operator. https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/4314

   provider

2. investigatingNov 9, 2026, 4:06 PM UTC

   We're continuing to investigate this issue. Thank you for your patience while we work on it.

   provider

Corrections

None so far.

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