Current answer
SerpApi experienced a major incident: Google Performance Degradation. ServiceAlert observed recovery on Nov 14, 2026.
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Incident Lifecycle
Affected Components
Search API
Search API
Images Light API
News Light API
AI Overview API
Shopping Light API
Videos Light API
Images API
Immersive Product API
Jobs API
Lens API
Local API
News API
Shopping API
Videos API
Incident Timeline
Identified
We're still working to improve performance across all of our Google APIs. We're sorry for the difficulties.
Thanks for your patience in the meantime.
Thanks for your patience in the meantime.
Nov 9, 2026 at 4:11 PM UTC
Identified
Since our last update, we have continued to deploy changes to improve reliability across the Google APIs, including adjustments to how requests are processed for Google Light and Google Shopping Light. Some Google APIs may still see elevated response times or intermittent errors while we continue testing further improvements.
We will share more updates as progress is made.
We will share more updates as progress is made.
Nov 2, 2026 at 12:16 PM UTC
Identified
We have deployed additional updates to address the ongoing performance degradation.
These mitigations have improved performance for Google Search and Google Light APIs since yesterday, while Google Shopping and Google Immersive Product APIs have performed better over the past week.
We continue to ship improvements as we work toward a stable, long-term resolution.
These mitigations have improved performance for Google Search and Google Light APIs since yesterday, while Google Shopping and Google Immersive Product APIs have performed better over the past week.
We continue to ship improvements as we work toward a stable, long-term resolution.
Oct 23, 2026 at 11:06 PM UTC
Identified
We've deployed fixes to our Google engines and have observed significant performance improvements in the Google News Light and Google Light APIs over the past few days.
We're continuing to work toward a full resolution across all affected Google APIs and will provide another update as soon as we have more information.
We're continuing to work toward a full resolution across all affected Google APIs and will provide another update as soon as we have more information.
Oct 19, 2026 at 10:15 PM UTC
Identified
Google Shopping Light and Immersive Product API issues were fixed within a few hours that same day.
Oct 17, 2026 at 4:42 AM UTC
Identified
We're seeing higher response times and error rates on the Google Shopping Light and Immersive Product APIs. We're actively working on these.
Oct 15, 2026 at 12:40 PM UTC
Identified
The performance stabilized for the past couple of days, so we're past the doom state. At the same time, we still see significant degradation across many of our Google engines, and we continue to work on this issue with the highest priority. We'll follow up once we have additional updates. Thank you for your patience.
Oct 12, 2026 at 8:51 AM UTC
Identified
We've made several adjustments over the past 24 hours and are seeing improved success rates and response times across the affected APIs. However, performance remains degraded, and our engineers are continuing to work toward fully restoring service.
Thank you for your continued patience. We'll share further updates as we make progress.
Thank you for your continued patience. We'll share further updates as we make progress.
Oct 8, 2026 at 9:11 PM UTC
Identified
We're continuing to experience significant performance degradation across many of our Google based APIs.
We have implemented a potential solution, which is currently in review.
Thank you again for your patience while we work to resolve this.
We have implemented a potential solution, which is currently in review.
Thank you again for your patience while we work to resolve this.
Oct 7, 2026 at 6:41 PM UTC
Identified
While performance is better than when the issue was reported, we're still experiencing significant degradation across many Google services, including Google Search, Google Ads, Google Images Light, Google Jobs, Google Light, Google News Light, and Google Shopping APIs.
The team is working on a resolution and hopes to provide updates as soon as possible.
We're deeply sorry for the trouble this issue is causing you. Thank you for your patience.
The team is working on a resolution and hopes to provide updates as soon as possible.
We're deeply sorry for the trouble this issue is causing you. Thank you for your patience.
Oct 7, 2026 at 1:02 PM UTC
Investigating
We are currently experiencing a partial service outage affecting multiple APIs.
Our engineering team is actively investigating the issue and working to restore normal service as soon as possible.
We apologize for the disruption and will provide updates as we make progress:
https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/4426
Our engineering team is actively investigating the issue and working to restore normal service as soon as possible.
We apologize for the disruption and will provide updates as we make progress:
https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/4426
Oct 6, 2026 at 3:51 PM UTC
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