Topic: Outage

Google Goes Down Briefly

It wasn’t you. It was Google. Specifically, Google.com went down around 3:50pm PT for about five minutes, a very rare occurrence. Other Google services also appear to have had issues. We’ll update if we hear more, but it appears back now. It certainly sparked brief panic on Twitter. Twitter search service Topsy tweeted a chart […]

Bing Is Down (Now Back After 30 Minutes)

If you try to go to Microsoft’s search engine, Bing, you may be out of luck. It seems to be currently down and out. A quick search on Twitter confirms that Bing is down for everyone. Update: Bing at 10:11pm (EST) tweeted that they are back up and they are indeed correct. Postscript #2: The […]

Google Services Go Down For Many

Currently, many people who use Google’s services, including web search, Gmail, Google Reader and other products are either down or incredibly slow for some Google users. For Danny and myself, we are able to access these services with no problem. However, if you look at recent Tweets about Google, you will notice that many people […]

Gmail Goes Offline Again

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 […]

Google News Goes Offline : 503 Server Error

Seems like Google is having difficulty keeping the Google News servers up. If you try Google News right now (at the time I am writing this), you will notice that it is returning a 503 server error. Here is a screen capture: People on Twitter are Tweeting about it right now as well. The first […]

Google’s Email, Gmail, Having Major Issues

It is not uncommon for Gmail (Google Email) users to complain about outages and issues with sending and receiving email. But right now, there are hundreds of Gmail users complaining that Gmail is down or simply not sending or receiving emails. A current search at Twitter on Gmail will return hundreds of messages with Gmail […]

Some GMail Accounts Wrongly Disabled As Spammers

IDG News and Search Engine Roundtable discuss the “inappropriate disabling” of an unknown number of GMail accounts late last week. Google was apparently going after spammers and got a little overzealous. The company said that the outage affected less than 1 percent of all users and reportedly all the accounts that were wrongly disabled are […]