"For five days, multiple critical Google services were missing a critical feature," says Cane. "To say that this was disruptive for marketers and search engine optimization (SEO) professionals would be putting it lightly. And to me, the fact that it occurred in tandem with another bug that prevented the indexing of new content serves as a sobering reminder."

The indexing issue, reports Search Engine Journal, was solved within hours of being identified.

"Google has become such a lynchpin in modern marketing that it's easy to forget that it's still a company," Cane continues. "That the mistakes and decisions it makes can easily render our SEO efforts either meaningless or obsolete. It's incredibly fortunate that issues such as this are relatively rare, but at the same time, one cannot help but question if we're putting too much power into the hands of a single organization."

Cane emphasizes, however, that she is not attempting to foster suspicion about the search engine giant. Rather, she views this incident as a reminder that not even pillars of the Internet are perfect. In the long-term, she believes that Google does have the best interests of its users at heart.

"For a company like Google, neutrality and fairness are foundational to success," concludes Cane. "A highly-biased or unfair search engine is functionally useless. It's therefore in Google's best interests to ensure that its algorithms are applied as even-handedly as possible—and to address any bugs and errors as quickly as it can."

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