Updated
Updated · Search Engine Roundtable · Jun 11
Google Search AI Overviews Stay Up Through Gemini Outage, Restored Within 1 Day
Updated
Updated · Search Engine Roundtable · Jun 11

Google Search AI Overviews Stay Up Through Gemini Outage, Restored Within 1 Day

3 articles · Updated · Search Engine Roundtable · Jun 11

Summary

  • Google said Search’s AI Overviews and AI Mode were not affected even as Gemini suffered multiple outages on June 10.
  • Rajan Patel, Google’s vice president of Search engineering, gave a direct “No” when asked whether the Gemini disruption hit those Search features.
  • Josh Woodward separately confirmed Gemini was down, said fixes were being rolled out, and later posted that service was back up and running.
  • The episode matters because Gemini powers some Google Search features, making the lack of spillover to AI Overviews and AI Mode a key operational detail.

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