Gmail Goes Offline Again

May 8, 2009 at 6:19am ET by Barry Schwartz

Gmail has now been offline for the past twenty minutes or so. Just take a look at Twitter Search to see how many people are upset with the downtime.

Here is a screen capture:

This outage seems to be impacting both web access, pop access and imap access.

Hopefully this outage won’t be as long or serious as the one from last August.

Update: Gmail is coming back online now. The outage was maybe 30 minutes. @Google Tweeted an apology:

Our apologies to all for the short Gmail outage early this morning…it’s fixed now. Dashboard status http://bit.ly/18em6F

Barry Schwartz is Search Engine Land's News Editor and owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry's personal blog is named Cartoon Barry and he can be followed on Twitter here.

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ONE COMMENT ON Gmail Goes Offline Again

chiropractic, May 8th, 2009 at 4:44 pm ET:
Premium member since 01/2009

I must never be one when gmail goes down, have not seen a 500 error yet.

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