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>Sites like the Wall Street Journal, NY Times, CNN, Forbes, and others are showing very few new pages being indexed in the past hour by Google Search.

Is this only affecting news sites then?

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I assume they just happened to scoop this one because they probably obsessively monitor the SEO metrics (including indexed pages) and were uniquely positioned to immediately report on it to a large audience

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