Google news services appeared to have stopped working suddenly on Fr🌼iday, with users unable to see any results for their search requests. However, the services were restored nearly an hour later.
Though the main search engine is working properly, the "news" tab showed no results.
Google news services appeared to have stopped working suddenly on Fr🌼iday, with users unable to see any results for their search requests. However, the services were restored nearly an hour later.
Though the main search engine was working properly, the "news" tab showed no resultඣs. The Google News pa♔ge said, "Uh-oh! Something went wrong. Please try again."
Notably, the service was down for both desktop and mobile 𒅌users.
ꦚAs the outage took place across the globe, netizens began reacting to it over social media posts on the microblogging site X.
One of the users said, @goog🗹lenews looks like you haven’t posted anything in a about a year. Maybe you can post today and give us a status on your outage."
While another us🔯er said, "Generative AI returned zero too :-)"
A few social media users also said that Google news being broke൲n fe💝lt "extremely ominous" to them.
Another user, funnily shared a gif over thᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚe situation, saying "C'mon, do something".
Another user, appearing to be a student, said, "Google News has broken, I consider this an 🐽assault against me personally -- I have an end of the week media summary to write."
Many users said🍌 that the Google News app was down on android and iPhones as well. "Not working Google news on Galaxy phone in pana🥃ma," one said, while another said, The Google News app on iPhone is not working for me."
Another user said that non o♔perationality of Google News was "hard to believe".
One of the key go-to options for searching or 🔥consuming news, for majority of the world, being down has led to massive reactions flooding social media as it i🍬s disrupting the Discover feed, trends feed and traffic search for several users.