The Ask.com Blog made me laugh with their The Latest Google Flatline post. In that entry, Ask.com writes about the recent Google capacity issues reported at Techcrunch and describes how it is so true. In fact, they say that when they were using a Google pen, and it “ran out of ink without warning.” They described the flat-lining of the Google pen to cause “considerable inconvenience and loss of data.”

But in fact, last week, Google noticed several issues with uptime on several of their products. Techcrunch sums many of them up including these reports:

• Google Analytics being down
• Google Finance being down
• Google News without news
• Google Stats for Google AdWords down

Related Topics: Ask: Promotions | Google: Other | Google: Parodies

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