Google outage: tech giant apologises after software update causes search engine to go down

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Google hit by worldwide outage as users report search engine down

Users said sister platforms Gmail, Google maps and Google images were also experiencing problems. Both rely on Google’s search engine to operate.

Hi Amanda. The Google Workspace Status dashboard doesn't show any outages. Could you tell us more about what seems to be happening with your Gmail address? We'd be happy to help.Network intelligence company ThousandEyes Inc reported Google outages were affecting at least 1,338 servers globally across more than 40 countries including the United States, Australia, South Africa, Kenya, Israel, parts of South America, Europe and Asia including China and Japan.

The first outage reported on ThousandEyes lasted approximately 34 minutes before a second blip hit at around 12pm. It affected a smaller amount of servers and took around seven minutes to resolve.“The server encountered a temporary error and could not complete your request,” one error page read.Users took to Twitter to express their confusion, reverting to alternate search engines including Bing and DuckDuckGo to surf the web.

 

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