Posted on 02/24/2009 12:49:13 PM PST by george76
Google’s web-based email service, Gmail, has crashed this morning, leaving millions of users from Britain to Australia unable to send and receive messages.
The email service went offline at around 10.25am GMT, and the outage appears to have affected users throughout the UK as well as across Europe, and even as far afield as Australia and India.
It appears that only web-based Gmail access is affected, and users can continue to send and receive messages using other devices, such as mobile phones and third-party mail clients.
Google could not confirm what had caused the outage. “A number of users are having difficulty accessing Gmail,”
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That’s going to leave a mark!
This is how it feels to be the Microsoft of the search engine industry.
What do you want for free?
As far as I can tell my Gmail is working fine here in California.
Me too. It was working when I woke up at 730 pst.
I’m noticing a huge difference. To wit, my account that gets a lot of spam has received almost none this morning.
:)
I’m in India now, and it’s been working fine throughout the week here.
I promise I didn’t bust it. Really.
Woikin fine here in Joisey
Bush must have done it. So that’s how he’s been keeping busy.
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