7 URLs, 1 Table Cell: How "1." Broke Our Search Pipeline

<p>Yesterday I wrote that our Japanese IT news site, IT Post, had published 15 articles while IndexNow — the protocol that tells search engines about new pages — submitted zero. The stuck workflow was run #511. One article kept reporting <code>ready: false</code>, the check timed out, and because submission waits for every URL, the whole batch went nowhere. A rerun changed nothing: 10 minutes 22 s

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