Discovered by a Twitter account of the site
wellness-heaven.de , there exists a bug in Google Search known to break the
search results when utilizing Safari in macOS if the connection contains a plus
symbol.
First observed on around September 28th, when there was
critical drop in the site's activity from Safari users.For example, on the off chance that you search for a
specific keyword and one of the search results contains a plus symbol, similar
to https://forums.developer.apple.com/search.jspa?q=crash+app+store&view=content,
then when you tap on the connection it won't do anything.
At the point when the issue was accounted for to John Mu, a
webmaster trends analyst at Google, he answered back that it was undoubtedly
unusual and that he would pass on the bug report.
The BleepingComputer could affirm this bug utilizing the
search results for Apple found on Safari in macOS Sierra. They have likewise
reached out to Google as well for more comments in regards to this bug, however
did not heard back.
This bug is likewise influencing Firefox 61.0.1 in macOS,
however seems, by all accounts to be working fine with Chrome 69.
Anyway, it is recommended for the users who may have seen a
plunge in traffic beginning around September 28, to check their analytics
software to decide whether this is originating from Safari users being unable
to click on their links.
