Google SearchLiaison announced via Twitter on Monday, November 29, 2021 that Google News has encountered an error that will not be resolved until Tuesday or sometime after December 1.
The problem Google discovered allowed non-news content to infiltrate Google News search results.
Google announces news tab search error
The tweet stated that users must go through a series of somewhat complicated steps to generate penetration of non-news search results.
People have to search in the Google News search tab and use quotation marks to sort the search results by date. This is two more steps than simply searching for news.
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Searching by date actually requires two additional steps, namely, clicking the “Tools” button and then clicking the “Sort by Date” link. This is something that ordinary search users may not know what to do.
Google Search Contact Tweet:
“We found a bug that using quotation marks when using the News tab and sorting by date will return content from the entire web, not just content related to news. We will release a fix tomorrow, so it should be on 12. It will be resolved on the 1st or a few days later.”
We found a bug that using quotation marks to search and sort by date when using the News tab will return content from the entire web, not just content related to news. We will release a fix tomorrow, so it should be resolved on December 1st or a few days later.
-Google SearchLiaison (@searchliaison) November 29, 2021
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To test it, I searched for “wordpress vulnerability“(With quotation marks), and then sort the search results by date.
It worked, and Google failed to produce specialized news results.
