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MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA: Google services, including YouTube, Gmail, and Google Drive, were restored for most people yesterday after a global outage that affected nearly all users, numbering in the millions.
Google’s website that records the outages said services that were impacted for nearly an hour should be restored for most users, Reuters reported.
Within minutes, social media sites were littered with hashtags, including #googledown and #YouTubeDOWN, as hundreds of millions of Internet users tried in vain to connect to the US search engine, AFP reported.
The outage started at approximately 7:50 PM (Singapore time) yesterday and lasted for about 40 minutes.
The company has some of the most widely used services in the world. YouTube registers more than two billion registered users each month, and people watch more than one billion hours of video on its platform.
“We’re up and running again!” The video platform said in a tweet.
He had previously tweeted that many users were having trouble accessing YouTube.
According to outage monitoring website DownDetector, more than 12,000 YouTube users were affected in various parts of the world, including the US, Britain, and India.
Disruptions to certain Google apps are not uncommon, but yesterday’s outage affected all of its popular services, including Google Hangouts, Google Chats, and Google Meet, products that people have used extensively during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The outage had an additional ramification for consumers using its Home service to control smart devices, such as house lights: Numerous users complained on Twitter that they had been plunged into darkness, The Straits Times reported.
Haunting reminder
BBC Technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones said it was a baffling reminder of how dependent we have become on cloud services.
He said: “The Google crisis may have been brief, taking services offline for less than an hour, but it was a baffling reminder of how dependent millions of people have become on cloud services.
“Anyone who has tried to open a Google document or reply to an urgent Gmail message will have felt a sense of dread when the message came back, ‘Please try reloading this page or come back to it in a few minutes.’
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