Google brings back in-depth articles to search results after 17-day outage
Back in August 2013 Google launched a feature named in depth articles in their search results after a couple months of testing. Since then, it really only had one major change in terms of how it appeared in the search results.
17-days ago completely dropped out of the Google search results. During that time, we emailed Google several times for an explanation on why and have not heard back.
Today, the in-depth articles are now back in the search results, leading us to believe that this was an unexpected bug or outage with this feature.
The Mozcast features tool tracked the loss of in-depth articles in the Google search results over time. As you can see, they disappeared on April 9th and returned today, April 26th:
From time to time, Google does have random bugs with their search results but this outage seemed unusually long.
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