SerpApi Outage History
Daily provider-status observations and published incident history for SerpApi.
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90-Day Trend
Monthly Status Summary
| Month | Issue-free days | Days Tracked | Days with issues |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 2026 | 0% | 31 | 31 |
This percentage summarizes normalized provider-status observations by calendar day. It is not duration-based, component-weighted, or contractual uptime. See the methodology and limitations.
Daily Status (Last 48 Days)
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Incident History
November 2026
Yelp Performance Degradation
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Started:
Search API
Place API
identified
We have implemented a fix for the Yelp Search API, however we are still working to resolve issues affecting our Yelp Place API.
Thanks for your patience while we continue working toward a full resolution.
identified
Post investigation, we have identified a solution and are actively working on implementing it. We will be sharing an update as soon as the fix is deployed. Thanks for your patience and understanding.
investigating
We continue to investigate this issue and are working on identifying possible solutions. Apologies for the disruption caused here. We will be share further updates as soon as we have more information.
GitHub issue: https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/4531
investigating
Our Yelp Search API and Yelp Place API are currently experiencing a high level of errors.
We’re very sorry for the inconvenience and will share another update once we have more information or performance has fully stabilized.
October 2026
[Google Search API] /goto links returned in organic_results->link
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Started:
API
Search API
identified
We are continuing to work on restoring direct links for all organic results in the Google Search API. Direct links for the top three results remain in place. Results beyond the top three may still return `/goto` links, which are now returned as full `https://www.google.com/goto?...` URLs instead of relative paths.
Since our last update, our engineers have tested additional approaches and are now evaluating a possible way to resolve the remaining links. We will share more as soon as we can confirm progress.
identified
We have released a fix that restores direct links for the top three results in our Google Search API. Results beyond the top three may still return `/goto` links. Our engineering team is continuing work to restore direct links for all organic results.
Thank you for your patience. We’ll share further updates as progress is made.
investigating
We're currently experiencing an issue with our Google Search API, which is returning /goto links for organic results instead of direct links. Our engineering team is investigating it.
https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/4315
Thanks for your patience in the meantime.
Valid queries return no results
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Started:
Search API
identified
We're continuing to investigate and resolve this issue affecting organic results or timing out in our Google Search API. We're sorry for the difficulties.
We'll notify you as soon as there is an update. Thanks for your patience in the meantime.
identified
We are continuing to investigate Google Search API searches that return zero organic results or time out even when results are available in the browser. Our engineering team continues to work on this issue, and we do not have a confirmed fix yet.
We will share another update as soon as we have more information.
identified
We’re investigating an ongoing issue affecting Google Search API, first observed on September 26. Valid searches may return zero organic results or time out, even when results are available in the browser.
Our engineering team is actively testing fixes to restore normal performance. We’ll provide updates as more information becomes available.
https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/4373
Paginated searches intermittently returns empty organic results
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Started:
API
identified
Our solution for this issue has not been deployed yet, and it's still under review. We'll notify you as soon as there is an update.
Thanks for your patience in the meantime.
identified
Our team has identified a solution for paginated searches not returning organic search results intermittently and are reviewing it before deployment. We will be sharing further updates as soon as the fix is implemented. Thanks for your patience and understanding.
investigating
We are continuing to investigate Google Search API paginated searches that intermittently return empty organic results. We do not have a confirmed fix yet. Our team is still working on this issue and monitoring paginated searches closely.
We will share another update as soon as we have more information.
investigating
Our team is still working on this issue and keeping a close eye on it. We'll continue monitoring the situation and share any new updates as soon as we have them. Thank you for your patience!
investigating
We are continuing to investigate this issue.
investigating
We are currently investigating the issue with Google Search APIs for empty results due to paginated queries.
Our team is actively looking into this, and we will share another update once we have more information.
You can track the progress of this issue on our public roadmap:
https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/4058
[Google Lens API] Performance Degradation
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Started:
Lens API
monitoring
A robust fix has been implemented and we've been monitoring since the last 14 hours.
identified
We’ve released several fixes and are seeing improved response times and lower error rates for the Google Lens API. Our engineering team continues working to restore expected performance.
identified
Our engineering team has identified the issue and are is currently working towards a fix.
Thank you for your patience in the meantime.
investigating
We’re currently seeing elevated response times and a decrease in success rates for Google Lens API. Our engineering team is investigating and working to restore normal performance.
We are tracking this issue on our Public Roadmap here:
https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/4464
[Bing Search API] Empty result for advanced search operators
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Started:
Search API
identified
We are continuing to evaluate possible fixes for empty results on Bing Search API searches that use advanced operators. Further testing is still needed to confirm their effectiveness, so affected searches may continue to return empty results for now.
We will share another update as soon as we have more information.
identified
Our engineers are making progress in evaluating possible fixes, but additional testing is still underway to confirm their effectiveness. We'll provide another update when we have more information.
Thank you for your patience in the meantime.
identified
Our engineers are currently exploring and working on different solutions which have shown good early response for this issue. We'll keep updating any improvements here.
investigating
We are currently investigating an issue where searches using advanced operators on the Bing Search API are returning empty results. Our team is actively looking into this, and we will share another update once we have more information.
You can track the progress of this issue on our public roadmap:
https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/2566
Searches returning irrelevant/poisoned results
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Started:
Search API
Shopping API
investigating
We are continuing to investigate and resolve this issue affecting our Google Search and Google Shopping APIs. We'll notify you as soon as there is an update.
Thanks for your patience.
investigating
We have observed irrelevant or fewer results on Google Shopping API in some cases and are further investigating it. GitHub issue: https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/4475 has been re-opened.
We are actively working on solving this and will be sharing further updates as more information becomes available. Thanks for your patience and understanding.
investigating
We have released a fix for the Google Shopping API. You can see the related issue here: https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/4475. Now you should be able to see relevant results again. If Google rolls out another update affecting this, please let us know. Thanks for your patience.
investigating
The current benchmarks our engineers have run show that about 6% of the results are returned as poisoned. The team continues to make further updates to resolve the issue. Thank you all for your patience.
investigating
Google Shopping API is also now affected by this issue, you can see the related issue here: https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/4475
We’ll continue working on a complete solution for all APIs and will provide further updates as more information becomes available. Thank you for your understanding.
investigating
Our engineering team has deployed an update that should reduce the number of instances in which poisoned results are returned instead of valid output. We're still working on fully addressing the issue. Thank you for understanding.
investigating
We've been observing Google returning irrelevant/poisoned results for the past few weeks. It appears to have escalated recently. The team is looking into it urgently and working on potential fixes.
https://github.com/serpapi/public-roadmap/issues/3781
[Brave AI Mode API] API calls fail for all queries
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Started:
Brave AI Mode API
investigating
Brave AI Mode API has been fully down since Saturday 10/10. The team is investigating the issue.
Google Performance Degradation
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Started:
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
identified
Google Shopping Light and Immersive Product API issues were fixed within a few hours that same day.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
[Google Search API] [Google Light API] Performance Degradation
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Started:
Search API
Search API
identified
We are currently working to resolve elevated response times and error rates affecting our Google Search API and Google Light API, caused by changes from Google.