Google services were down including Google Ads, Google Analytics, Search Console & more

Much of Google is offline, it is not just you. Google began restoring services at around 7:28am ET.

Barry Schwartz on December 14, 2020 at 7:18 am

This morning at around 6:55am ET, many of Google’s services went offline. This includes many tools and services that you, as marketers, depend on. While Google Search seems to be working, outside of logging into Google Search, other aspects of Google are not working.

What is offline. Here is a list of services that are offline that marketers may care about:

Google Ads
Google AdSense
Google Analytics
Google Search Console
Google My Business
YouTube
Google Play
Firebase
Gmail
Google Apps/Workforce
Admob

Virtually all services that require a Google login are offline.

What it looks like. When you try to login, you may get a blank screen or a 502 error of some sort:

We’re back. Google services seem to be coming back up at 7:28am ET, so about a 30 minute outage.

Today, at 3.47AM PT Google experienced an authentication system outage for approximately 45 minutes due to an internal storage quota issue. This was resolved at 4:32AM PT, and all services are now restored.
— Google Cloud (@googlecloud) December 14, 2020

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Barry Schwartz 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. Barry's personal blog is named Cartoon Barry and he can be followed on Twitter here.