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May 14, 2009
The Great #googlefail of May 2009
Google services have gone down (or were down earlier today) in various cities. There aren't too many concrete details out there. ZD Net is reporting that the outages in New York, San Francisco, Chicago, Australia, France, China among others. There's also a possible glitch regarding Google and AT&T.
According to CNet, the services down include: YouTube, Gmail, Google Analytics, Google Maps, Google Docs, AdSense, and Blogger.
But you don't need an online tech source to know what's happening. Just log on to Twitter (or visit search.twitter.com) and you'll see that #googlefail is a hot topic today. Looks like the "Poor man's email" is a little more reliable than Gmail today.
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Posted by Nathania Johnson on May 14, 2009 1:05 PM
Comments
Meg Walker May 14, 2009 2:44 PM
"Looks like the "Poor man's email" is a little more reliable than Gmail today." I'm glad you finished with "today", because any other day, is just another fail whale for Twitter.
John Scott Cothill May 15, 2009 4:48 AM
you can add Israel to the list of countries where google services were down.
Ilan May 17, 2009 4:06 AM
I'm still having problems with my google sites! Pages are missing and google applications are all over the place
K May 20, 2009 5:09 AM
Another good search site is Cazoodle.com. It has 3 products so far, Apartment Search, Event Search and Shopping Search. The Apartment search yielded me 1099 results when I searched for a 2 br apt. in Champaign / Urbana IL. The site also halves the results screen, by putting the listings and its information on the left, and a Google Map on the right with all the listings pegged by location. I would definitely recommend this to anyone relocating or just looking for an apt.
Adam J. May 27, 2009 1:48 PM
Wow this is cool, I'm actually getting ready to go to the UofI and will definitely use this to search for my new dorm, if thats possible!
Renee May 27, 2009 2:50 PM
In DC area, Google search, AdWords, Analytics and more were down for over 35 minutes from about 10:00 am. They seem to be working again, but continue to see periodic delays on Adwords functionality.
It was a shocker to see a 404 error at www.google.com...