Searches with advanced operators time out intermittently
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SerpApi experienced a major incident: Searches with advanced operators time out intermittently. The provider currently marks this incident Investigating.
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Incident Lifecycle
Affected Components
Search API
Incident Timeline
Investigating
We are still working to resolve this issue. We're sorry again for the difficulties.
We'll notify you as soon as there is an update. Thanks for your patience in the meantime.
We'll notify you as soon as there is an update. Thanks for your patience in the meantime.
Nov 9, 2026 at 4:14 PM UTC
Investigating
Our engineering team is continuing to work on Google Search API searches that use advanced operators and run slowly or time out. We do not have a confirmed fix yet, and affected searches may still time out intermittently.
We apologize for the continued disruption and will share more information as soon as we have it.
We apologize for the continued disruption and will share more information as soon as we have it.
Nov 2, 2026 at 12:12 PM UTC
Investigating
Our engineering team is still working to resolve this issue. We apologize for the continued disruption and will share updates as progress is made.
Oct 26, 2026 at 8:24 PM UTC
Investigating
We're continuing to work on a fix for this issue. We'll reach out with additional updates as soon as possible.
Oct 15, 2026 at 3:29 PM UTC
Investigating
We are continuing our work on the issue. The team has tested multiple approaches so far, but none has proved to be a long-term solution. We'll get back with additional updates as soon as possible. Thank you for your patience, and apologies for the disruption.
Oct 12, 2026 at 8:50 AM UTC
Investigating
We're seeing higher error rates on advanced searches again. We're investigating.
Sep 24, 2026 at 12:56 PM UTC
Monitoring
We have implemented a fix to resolve this issue. We are continuing to monitor closely.
Sep 21, 2026 at 8:30 PM UTC
Identified
We're continuing to work on a fix for this issue. We'll let you know once it's implemented.
Sep 19, 2026 at 11:31 PM UTC
Identified
Queries with advanced search operators may also be returning an HTTP 500 error:
https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/4213
We're continuing to work toward a fix. Thank you for your patience in the meantime.
https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/4213
We're continuing to work toward a fix. Thank you for your patience in the meantime.
Aug 29, 2026 at 7:51 PM UTC
Identified
We've been experiencing issues with Google Search API executing very slowly or timing out entirely when advanced search operators are used in query. We've identified the issue and are currently working on a fix.
https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/4080
https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/4080
Aug 26, 2026 at 2:33 PM UTC
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