Google has commented on why YouTube, Gmail, the browser and other of its services experienced these operating issues in various parts of the world.
“Today, at [11.47 GMT], Google experienced an outage of the authentication system for approximately 45 minutes due to a internal storage quota problem. Services that require users to log in experienced high error rates during this period, “a company spokesman said, adding that the operation of all services is currently being restored, the TechCrunch portal reports.
“We apologize to all those affected and carry out a thorough follow-up to ensure that this problem does not recur in the future,” the spokesman added.