Google search bug has search suggestions crawling off the page

Google, that just looks ugly. Can you fix it?

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An apparent bug is currently affecting Google’s search suggestions and auto-complete function. If you try to search Google.com and begin typing, Google will show auto-complete search suggestions on the right side of the search box, instead of showing them underneath the search box.

Here is a screen shot:

Google Autocomplete Bug

Complaints. Tons of searchers, SEOs, SEMs and our community are not liking what they see and posted screen shots and videos of this in action. Here are some of those:

https://twitter.com/pedrodias/status/1125877858327506946

The complaints go on and on.

Is it a bug? Google has not confirmed if this is a bug or not. But based on everything we see, how it looks, this appears to be a bug. Danny Sullivan from Google believes this is a bug, as he noted on Twitter:

Fix coming? We would think Google will be fixing this issue fast, but Google has not yet acknowledged it or given us a statement.

Fixed. Google has confirmed this was a bug and has resolved the issue. Everything is now back to normal.


About the author

Barry Schwartz
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Barry Schwartz is a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry can be followed on Twitter here.

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