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Google was hit by a major service outage on Monday, with some of its most popular services inaccessible for about an hour.
YouTube, Gmail and Google Meet were among the services affected by the problem, which began shortly before noon and was resolved an hour later. According to the Google Workspace status dashboard, its top productivity services, including Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, and Slides, were down.
Google’s educational platform, Google Classroom, was also inaccessible. The platform has been used by students who learned from home during the pandemic.
The tech giant’s search services continued to function during the outage.
Users took to social media to express their frustrations over the outage. The problem has likely affected millions of users. YouTube has more than two billion active users, while the email platform Gmail has more than 1.5 billion users.
Google has yet to confirm what caused the problem. On his service status page for Gmail, he said that the problem should be resolved for the vast majority of affected users. “We will continue to work to restore service for the remaining affected users, but no further updates will be provided in the Google Workspace Status Dashboard,” Google said. “Rest assured that system reliability is one of Google’s top priorities and we are making continuous improvements to improve our systems.”
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