DOZEN OF GOOGLE SERVICES DOWN!!
More than a dozen Google services such as Gmail and YouTube were offline for roughly an hour Monday, long enough to close schools, disrupt work and highlight again our dependency on the internet amid the coronavirus pandemic.
On Google, searches for “Is Google down?” rocketed in popularity.
A Google spokeswoman said Monday that the outage affected the company’s system that authenticates login credentials for users of its wide array of services. Engineers traced the problem to internal servers and the issues weren’t the result of a cyberattack or recently announced changes to cloud-storage quotas within certain Google products, the spokeswoman said.
The outage began about 6:45 a.m. Eastern Time and lasted roughly an hour, the company said. Google apologized to affected users and in a statement pledged to “conduct a thorough follow up review to ensure this problem cannot recur in the future.”
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