Gmail Goes Offline Again

By Barry Schwartz

Published: May 8, 2009 at 6:19 am

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 https://bit.ly/18em6F

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Barry Schwartz

Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.

In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.

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