Google Reveals More Information About Search Status Dashboard - Search Engine Journal

Google shares more information about the future of the Search Status Dashboard

• Search Status Dashboard updates will not be translated to other languages
• Updates may expand to additional search features beyond the initial three kinds of incidents
• RSS feed makes it easy to keep updated about new incidents

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Google published a new episode of the Search Off the Record podcast that reveals the reasons behind the Search Status Dashboard, what kinds of incidents it will cover and why they don’t plan on translating updates to other languages.

Google Search Status Dashboard

Google recently announced a new Search Status Dashboard that communicates when there’s an outage.

Service status pages are common to services like web hosts because it’s a convenient way to communicate for both the users and the service provider.

Why Google is Publishing a Search Status Dashboard

Notices of outages at Google were previously done on an ad-hoc basis via Twitter, which according to the Googlers came with downsides that made it a less than ideal solution.

The podcast noted that Google promised a dashboard back in 2019, after the major search outages of 2019 where it seemed like the entire index went belly up.

Gay Illyes explained:

“Well, one of the reasons is that we promised it in 2019, so… we...

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