Google is facing an outage for some users in India and several other countries as most of its services and apps have gone down. Contacts from Google, Docs, Drive, Gmail, YouTube and more are currently not working, leading to error messages in India and more countries including Europe and the US It should be noted that YouTube and other services work fine if you open them in incognito mode. YouTube recently faced a major outage for a couple of hours early last month, and it appears that the video streaming platform is again the hardest hit in the outage.
According to Downdetector, YouTube appears to have faced the brunt of the outage, with more than 24,000 cases reported as of 5:42 pm IST. Gmail, on the other hand, shows more than 11,000 cases reported at the same time. Google Drive and the Google website show more than 400 and 15,000 reports, respectively, on Downdetector.
When opening the YouTube home page, it just shows a ‘something went wrong’ message. Youtube tweeted that the service does face problems and that it has been examined. The Google Workspace Status Dashboard also shows that most of Google’s apps and services are facing the problem, including Calendar, Sheets, Meet, and Voice. Services appear to be slowly re-establishing themselves as YouTube has started operating for some users at the time of writing, but not all.
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