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The "Site:" Operator is Ignored

Major Impact Investigating Ongoing per provider November 3, 2026
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Current answer

SerpApi experienced a major incident: The "Site:" Operator is Ignored. The provider currently marks this incident Investigating.

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Affected Components
Search API

Incident Timeline

Investigating
We're continuing to investigate this issue.

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Nov 9, 2026 at 4:06 PM UTC
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.

https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/4314
Nov 3, 2026 at 8:45 PM UTC
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