[Google Search API] Requests timing out while using tbm=nws with advanced parameters

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.

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.

We're continuing to investigate this issue. We'll keep you updated as soon as we have any progress or new information to share.

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