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Google services they were experiencing widespread outages around the world on Monday, preventing people from accessing Gmail, YouTube and other products.
Errors ranged from “something went wrong” on YouTube to “there was an error. Please try again later. That’s all we know ”when we try to log into the company’s mail product. Google products were not charging for users in New York, UK, Europe, and South Africa.
Google confirmed that there was a service outage for most of its services according to a Workspace Health Dashboard, which monitors the health of its products.
Disruptions are not uncommon on any website or provider, and companies like Google, Apple, Amazon.com, Microsoft, and others routinely experience them due to temporary server errors often caused by human error. But Monday’s outage is notable for its omnipresence in Google’s portfolio.
The company’s search product was working properly and third-party ads, Google’s main revenue driver, remained visible in the results, suggesting that advertising was unaffected.
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The Downdetector website, which collects user-reported bugs across websites, mobile networks, and other platforms, showed tens of thousands of complaints, extending to Google’s office tools like Drive and Meet, Google Maps, and the products for Google’s smart home, like Nest.
The popular mobile game Pokemon Go was also affected, according to reports from Downdetector, likely because Google accounts are required to log into the game.
In November, Amazon.com’s cloud computing division suffered an outage that affected customers’ ability to use roughly two dozen services, affecting streaming hardware maker Roku, software vendor Adobe, and Flickr digital photography service. – Reported by Nate Lanxon, (c) 2020 Bloomberg LP
