- Level
- confirmed
- Worst impact
- Partial outage
- Components
- Search API
- Regions
- us
- Down Index
- 37of 100
What to do
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Updates from SerpApi 5
- investigating
Google searches with the tbm=nws parameter are currently timing out. We're investigating the issue and will follow up with updates. https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/4185
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- investigating
We're continuing to investigate this issue. We'll keep you updated as soon as we have any progress or new information to share.
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- identified
We're working on implementing a fix. The team noticed that the advanced inline site: operator is no longer supported in the Google Search API when using the tbm=nws flag. We recommend switching to our Google News API (https://serpapi.com/google-news-api) or dropping the site: parameter from nws searches. We'll follow up as soon as we have additional updates.
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- identified
As mentioned earlier, Google doesn't serve the News tab (tbm=nws) for site: queries to signed-out users anymore. We have updated our documentation to reflect this: https://serpapi.com/search-api#api-parameters-search-query-q Those searches now result in an appropriate error message instead of timing out. You can specify example.com instead of site:example.com in your query as a workaround, or use the Google News API. We are still working on addressing requests failing with queries containing other advanced parameters such as AND and OR.
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- resolved
Google searches using tbm=nws along with advanced parameters are now working normally. Note that Google no longer supports the site: operator for tbm=nws searches by signed-out users. Requests that use this combination will return an error message. Alternate solution is to use Google News API or other News APIs such as Bing News API, DuckDuckGo API. Separately, some requests with advanced parameters (with or without tbm=nws) are timing out. We are tracking that here: https://status.serpapi.com/incidents/pts4x92phsq8, and updates will be posted on that page. We appreciate your patience. If you have questions or need help, kindly reach out to us on contact@serpapi.com.
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Questions about DWN-4a24997f8f
Is SerpApi still down?
No, this incident was resolved 2026-10-19 01:56 UTC. For SerpApi's live state, see https://down.guide/serpapi.
How long did it last?
53d 11h, from 2026-08-26 14:30 UTC to 2026-10-19 01:56 UTC, by the times SerpApi posted.
What was affected?
SerpApi named Search API in us.
What caused it?
SerpApi hasn't published a root cause. If it does, it shows here.
Where does this come from?
SerpApi's official status page, https://status.serpapi.com, quoted verbatim. down.guide's own probes, reports and social counts are labeled as ours.