If you try to filter you Google Search or Google News tab results by the recent search tools option, it simply won’t work. If you try to select the “Tools” and then “Recent” options, including the past hour option, it won’t listen to that filter and it won’t filter the content by the last hour.
This has been a Google Search bug for the past several hours across both desktop and mobile search.
Here is a screenshot of me filtering Google Search for the search term [google] for the past hour – you can see it does not respect the filter:
Here is the same filter but on the Google News tab – which I use a ton:
The good news is that Google is respecting the “Relevance” and then “Sort by date.” So that can be a workaround for a bit.
Here is a similar screenshot but from my iPhone – showing Google Search on the left and Google News tab on the right:
There are complaints about this across Reddit, X, X, LinkedIn and many more sources.
I assume Google will fix this bug but the bug has been lingering for several hours now.
Rajan Patel from Google did confirm the team is working on it:
Apologies. We’re debugging now and try to get it working ASAP.
— Rajan Patel (@rajanpatel) August 1, 2026
Forum discussion at Reddit, X, X, LinkedIn.
Update: The issue is now resolved:
The team shipped a fix this morning. Appreciate your patience. The weekend slowed things down a bit.
— Rajan Patel (@rajanpatel) August 2, 2026
