Google has confirmed an issue with Google Discover traffic related to a bug with the Google October 2023 core update.
The issue started on October 5, 2023, when the core update started to roll out, and was fixed on October 31, 2023.
What Google said. Google wrote, on the Search Status report, “On October 5, we found a bug with how our October 2023 core update was applied to Discover.” “As of October 31, we fixed the bug. Some sites may see an increase in Discover-related traffic, as a result of this bug fix,” Google added.
