Use a non-sensitive query that reliably triggers the error. Record the search surface, exact short error text, local time with timezone, and whether results never appear or appear before the message. Try the same query once in a fresh session; do not paste private searches, full URLs with tokens, or account identifiers. If the official status page reports an incident, link it and note whether your symptom matches. A report that distinguishes a failed request from an empty result set is easier to investigate than 'search is broken.'