Search rankings: Google working to fix ongoing glitch

New Delhi: Google on Friday said the company was working on a fix to resolve the ongoing problem with Search rankings that is impacting a large number of search results.

The company said in an update that they are actively working on the fix. The tech giant has identified the root cause of this issue and confirmed that it is unrelated to the ongoing August core update.

In an update on X social media platform, the company said that “there an ongoing issue with ranking in Google Search that's affecting a large number of search results”.

“We've identified the root cause. This issue is unrelated to the ongoing core update rollout announced yesterday. We're working on a fix,” Google said.

The company said the “next update will be within 12 hours.”

The ‘August 2024 core’ update will take about a month to fully roll out for users. The update takes into account the feedback and aims to promote useful content from small and independent publishers.

“We launched our August 2024 core update to Google Search. This update is designed to continue our work to improve the quality of our search results by showing more content that people find genuinely useful and less content that feels like it was made just to perform well on Search,” according to the company.

The latest update takes into account the feedback it has heard from some creators and others over the past few months.