Google Down

2022 - 8 - 9

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Google hit by worldwide outage as users report search engine down (The Guardian)

Google experienced a major international internet outage on Tuesday, technology platforms reported. The realtime online platform Downdetector reported users ...

Users took to Twitter to express their confusion, reverting to alternate search engines including Bing and DuckDuckGo to surf the web. We worked to quickly address the issue and our services are now back online.” A spokesperson for the company said the team had “worked quickly” to address the fault and services were back running as normal.

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Google outage reported by thousands of users around the world (CNBC)

Users around the world are reporting outages on search engine Google, according to DownDetector.com.

In the U.S., more than 40,000 people reported that Google was down for them around 9.20 p.m. ET, though the figure has since fallen. - In the U.S., more than 40,000 people reported that Google was down for them around 9.20 p.m. ET, though the figure has since fallen. - Users around the world are reporting outages on search engine Google, according to DownDetector.com.

Google down: Search engine plagued by major outages on Tuesday ... (7NEWS.com.au)

Australians reported they were unable to connect to the website, instead being met with a 500 or 502 error. “The server encountered an error and could not ...

The issue appears to have since been rectified. However, the issue appears to not have been isolated to Australia. Other Google-owned services, including Gmail and YouTube, appeared to have been unaffected.

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Today's Google outage was brief but disconcerting (The Conversation AU)

Google's brief disappearance from the internet felt, for many, like an almost-apocalyptic moment.

And, as many people noted, you can still search online even when Google is down – you might just have to use a different search provider, such as Bing or DuckDuckGo. Google certainly has the capacity and capability to act swiftly to resolve service problems when they do occur. It’s disconcerting when the sites we rely on suddenly become inaccessible, and even more so when it happens on such a vast scale.

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Google, Google Maps, YouTube and other services recover after ... (The Indian Express)

Alphabet Inc's Google was down for thousands of users on Monday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. Google search was not the only ...

We worked to quickly address the issue and our services are now back online,” the company said in a statement. Google services appear to be back up for most users in India for now. Most users encountered a 500 error, which indicates a server problem. The hashtag #googledown was trending on the platform. Meanwhile, users took to Twitter to mock about the outage, with Google search being down. According to Google’s own app status dashboard there’s no reflection of an outage.

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Google goes down, outage of the internet's front page is real (TweakTown)

Google is down right now, and no one knows why... for the first time in forever... I'm having to use an alternative search engine.

Google is down?" People are getting "500. That's an error" that continues "the server encountered an error and could not complete your request. Google seems to be down in some parts of the world, after a quick search on Twitter I noticed that #GoogleDown was in the top tweets, so I knew it wasn't just me.

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Google Experiences Rare, Widespread Outage (Search Engine Journal)

Reports flooded in from Twitter on Monday evening as Google experienced a rare, widespread outage. Searchers around the world were met with this error ...

The engine was totally down. Had a Google search engine error for the first time ever. It certainly didn’t go unnoticed as thousands of users took to Twitter to ask if Google is down.

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Google down: What happens when the site kicks up an error ... (Gulf News)

Users reported problems with Google search, Gmail, Google maps and Google images. Problems loading the Google website and performing searches were also observed ...

The five-minute Google disruption in 2013 resulted in a massive 40 per cent drop in internet traffic globally, according to Web analytics firm GoSquared. So imagine the situation if the outage lasts a day. In little over a year, it was popular enough to get its own hosting outside of Stanford. In 2004, Google went public – and there has been no looking back since. Along the way, Google acquired huge companies like Motorola Mobility, YouTube, Waze, and HTC — tremendously increasing its influence, product line and profile. If Google had resolved the issue in five minutes, its revenue loss would have been less than $2 million, according to Coralogix, a software company. Since the tech giant’s quarterly reported revenue in Q3 2020 was $46.02 billion, the recent interruption could have cost Google at least $47 million. Other Google services that could be impacted are the popular Google Maps, News, Google Drive, Gmail and so on. They will live with the disruption for a day; it will be a day without maps, mails and movies. DECEMBER 2020: On December 14, 2020, a global Google outage occurred. “All services are now restored,” Google said in a statement. This was resolved at 4:32AM PT,” Google said in a tweet. So when an outage occurs, just about everyone who uses the internet is affected. Google, the world’s most popular search engine, has been a runaway success due to unique ability to provide higher-quality results for each user.

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Google Outage Blamed on 'Software Update', but No One is Buying It (Gizmodo Australia)

At around 11:12 am on Tuesday, Google went down, after an outage across the search giant's suite of products rendered them all but useless.

Right around the same time users started experiencing disruptions Google was reportedly dealing with a major electrical fire in its Council Bluffs data centre that sent at least three electricians to the hospital with critical injuries. One of the electricians was reportedly airlifted to a local hospital while the other two were rushed in by ambulances to treat their wounds. The engineers, according to SF Gate, were reportedly working on a substation close to the data centres when an explosion occurred. We worked to quickly address the issue and our services are now back online.” According to DownDetector, people started reporting a problem with Google from around 9:12 pm EDT, which is 11:12 am AEST. “We’re aware of a software update issue that occurred late this afternoon Pacific Time and briefly affected availability of Google search and Maps,” Google said in a statement about the outage to The Guardian. “We apologise for the inconvenience.

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