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Gmail, YouTube, Google Docs, and other Google services hit by massive outag
theverge.com ^ | Dec 14, 2020, | Jon Porter

Posted on 12/14/2020 9:25:07 AM PST by ransomnote

Google says the problem should be fixed for most users now

Multiple Google services and websites including YouTube, Gmail, Google Assistant, and Google Docs were down for around an hour on Monday morning after being hit with a widespread outage. Google acknowledged the issues with Gmail, affecting both its business and personal services, at 6:55AM ET, and said the problem was fixed for the “vast majority” of users at 7:52AM ET. Identical notices were posted across the status pages for the rest of Google’s services.

Reports quickly mounted on Twitter after users couldn’t access Google’s basic services, causing the hashtag “#YouTubeDOWN” to trend. At its peak, the status page for Google’s services was a sea of red, to indicate they were all suffering an outage. All services are now green indicating that they’re fully operational.

The world’s dependence on Google services led to a truly staggering number of reports on DownDetector, with the number of reported YouTube problems peaking at over 100,000. Some users found YouTube was still functional if they visited it in an incognito browser without signing in. Google Workspace apps like Docs and Meet were also down.
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KEYWORDS: didyousearch; google; googlemail; googlgmail; outag; outage; youtube

1 posted on 12/14/2020 9:25:07 AM PST by ransomnote
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To: ransomnote

my heart bleeds. . . . /sarc


2 posted on 12/14/2020 9:27:16 AM PST by RatRipper ( Democrats and socialists are vile liars, thieves and murderers - enemies of good and America.)
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To: ransomnote

Oh I hate those outags


3 posted on 12/14/2020 9:27:57 AM PST by Pollard (Bunch of curmudgeons)
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To: ransomnote

4 posted on 12/14/2020 9:29:52 AM PST by Bratch
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To: ransomnote

People and businesses can see the wonderful advantages of having all their computing on the cloud. /s


5 posted on 12/14/2020 9:37:01 AM PST by diatomite (That grifter crook Biden isn't my president and never will be!! Resist!!.)
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To: ransomnote

That’s what happens when everything is in “the cloud” and the cloud goes down.


6 posted on 12/14/2020 9:37:22 AM PST by Renkluaf
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To: Renkluaf
That’s what happens when everything is in “the cloud” and the cloud goes down.

You mean we have a 99.9978% uptime instead of a 99.9985% uptime?

I'm forced to use Gmail for work. I've been on it all day so if it did go down, it happened in the blink of an eye. Or maybe when I got up to refill my coffee.

7 posted on 12/14/2020 9:40:59 AM PST by SamAdams76 (Orange Man GOOD!)
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To: ransomnote

As foretold ...


8 posted on 12/14/2020 9:41:30 AM PST by GBA (A = 432 or 440? )
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To: Renkluaf

No, it will be much worse.

When the clouds truly break and the bits rain, one will wish they had an ark..


9 posted on 12/14/2020 9:41:38 AM PST by algore
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To: ransomnote

Geeeeee that’s really too bad for g8888gle’s loss of revenue, and also the monetization of foreign propaganda in the US.


10 posted on 12/14/2020 9:50:59 AM PST by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: ransomnote

Officially, this was termed “a glitch in the matrix”. It happens when they reset something and is sometimes recognizable as a feeling of deja vu.


11 posted on 12/14/2020 9:51:43 AM PST by glorgau
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To: John S Mosby
This is why Google went down


12 posted on 12/14/2020 10:00:27 AM PST by Salamander (I May Be Lonely But I'm Never Alone...And The Nights May Pass Me By...But I Never Cry...)
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To: glorgau

I thought that non-spoon looked familiar.


13 posted on 12/14/2020 10:01:22 AM PST by Salamander (I May Be Lonely But I'm Never Alone...And The Nights May Pass Me By...But I Never Cry...)
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To: ransomnote

At this moment Paypal is not working for eBay.
Well, not for me...


14 posted on 12/14/2020 10:02:37 AM PST by glasseye ("If you don't fire that prosecutor, you ain't black." -Joe Biden)
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I do not use any of these services nor will I. So, who cares.

JoMa


15 posted on 12/14/2020 12:11:34 PM PST by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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I even have NoScript block calls to google.com, googletagmanager, google-analytics, etc. If a web site won’t run with those things blocked, I click out.

You can and should live without google.


16 posted on 12/14/2020 2:22:44 PM PST by Chad C. Mulligan
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