Google made two announcements on Wednesday in its Search Central Blog. One introduced a dashboard tool for users to understand the most current status of systems that impact Search — crawling, indexing, and serving. The other is a link spam update for Google Search in December 2022.

This dashboard reports widespread issues occurring in the past seven days, with some details and the current status of the incident.

Google described a widespread issue defined as a systemic problem with a Search system that affected a large number of sites or Search users.

These kinds of issues typically are visible externally, and internally the SREs’ monitoring and alerting mechanisms are working behind the scenes to flag the issues, according to Google.

In the past Google worked with its Site Reliability Engineers (SRE) to externalize these disruptions on the Google Search Central Twitter account. Now the company has introduced the Google Search Status Dashboard to communicate the status of Search.

Once Google confirms an issue, the company says, it will post the incident on the dashboard within an hour, and follow with consecutive updates to the incident within 12 hours. The start time of the incident is generally based on the confirmation time.

Along with reporting the incident, Google said it will try to provide more information that might resolve the solution.

The incident is considered to be resolved when Google engineers have made changes that will end the impact on the system.

The Google Search link spam update centers around the company’s SpamBrain technology, an AI-based spam-prevention system.

This system can now detect sites buying links, and sites using links for the purpose of passing outgoing links.

The launch announced today will take about two weeks to fully roll out, according to Google.

Ranking may change as spammy links are nullified and any credit passed by these unnatural links are lost. This launch affects all languages.

Google made two announcements on Wednesday in its Search Central Blog. One introduced a dashboard tool for users to understand the most current status of systems that impact Search-crawling, indexing, and serving. The other is a link spam update for Google Search in December 2022.