Google Suffers Widespread Outage: Quick Fix Promised

Scurrilous

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Thu May-14-09 01:45 PM
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Google Suffers Widespread Outage: Quick Fix Promised

Source: PCWorld

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"Google appears to have recovered from a widespread outage affecting many of its online services Thursday. Most Google properties were inaccessible to users across the U.S. and worldwide from about 10:45 a.m. until about 12:20 p.m. EDT. People from coast-to-coast and as far as China, Australia, and France were all impacted.

Google released the following statement to PC World about the outages:

"We're aware some users are having trouble accessing some Google services. We're looking into it, and we'll update everyone soon."

About an hour later, a spokesperson sent us the following update:

"The issue affecting some Google services has been resolved. We're sorry for the inconvenience, and we'll share more details soon."

Read more: http://www.pcworld.com/article/164891/google_suffers_widespread_outage_quick_fix_promised.html

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onehandle

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Thu May-14-09 02:18 PM
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1. I wondered. I couldn't get to google.com, much less gmail.com a little while ago.

Edited on Thu May-14-09 03:13 PM by onehandle

Even on my iPhone couldn't receive or send with gmail.

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JonLP24

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Thu May-14-09 02:24 PM
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2. I didn't have much problems

Google news wouldn't load at first but it came up later.

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SpiralHawk

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Thu May-14-09 02:45 PM
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3. "Mercury is so Retrograde just now." - Ronald Reagan's Dead Republicon Astrologer*

Edited on Thu May-14-09 02:46 PM by SpiralHawk

*Channeled from the vast netherworld of Republico Occultism

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Robb

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Thu May-14-09 04:22 PM
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5. LOL - When Mrs. Robb and I can't communicate

...I just tell her my Mercury is in Uranus. :D

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Cirque du So-What

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Thu May-14-09 04:19 PM
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4. I used it earlier today

It generated a page of links, but they were displayed in a low-resolution, very basic format.

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