{"id":784,"date":"2020-08-11T11:52:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T11:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenfintech.com\/blog\/?p=784"},"modified":"2022-10-12T05:29:15","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T05:29:15","slug":"google-search-bug-caused-by-issue-with-its-indexing-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenfintech.com\/blog\/google-search-bug-caused-by-issue-with-its-indexing-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Search bug caused by issue with its \u2018indexing systems\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Google said it was an issue with indexing that caused Monday&#8217;s really weird search results.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Google has now explained the massive search bug from yesterday was related to an issue with its indexing systems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Google wrote, \u201cOn Monday we detected an issue with our indexing systems that affected Google search results. 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