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

Partial outage Ongoing for 2d 19h · started · SerpApi's page

Updates every minute from the provider's page.

Level
confirmed
Worst impact
Partial outage
Components
Search API
Down Index
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What to do

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

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

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

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Updates from SerpApi 1

  1. investigating

    We are currently investigating confirmed reports that our Google Search API is consistently returning results from domains outside those specified by the `site:` operator.

    provider

Reports count in aggregate; nothing about you is shown.

Corrections

None so far.

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Questions about DWN-e1b0ec56bf

Is SerpApi down right now?

SerpApi reports partial outage ([Google Search API] The "Site:" Operator is Ignored), open since 2026-11-03 20:45 UTC. Live state for every component: https://down.guide/serpapi.

What was affected?

SerpApi named Search API.

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.