Dozens of Google services, including Gmail and YouTube, were offline worldwide Monday morning, blocking access to individuals and businesses.
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According to social media posts from users, there are errors in trying to access or access their emails or files using Google’s Drive services. On YouTube, the home page was changed to “Oops” with a description of a monkey with a hammer.
The Google Dashboard, which displays the availability of Google services, said that in addition to email and storage, applications including its calendar, video conferencing tools, document editing service and spreadsheets were offline until 6:55 p.m.
Service for affected applications resumed at 7:35 p.m.
The cause of the crash was not immediately known. A Google spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The outbreak of the corona virus caused tens of thousands of people who had to stay home for the better part of the year. Long-distance work and learning depend more on businesses and individuals online services than ever before, for which Google is one of the most widely used providers.
Google’s Gmail is one of the most popular email clients worldwide, and Microsoft’s GSuite Office Tools is a competitor. Corps
Popular among office, businesses and companies.
“Why G Suite? Why would you crash on a Monday !! Oh wait # 2020, ”he wrote A Twitter user.
In at least one newsroom using Google services, a reporter had to use old technology – phone use – to command the first paragraphs of a failed story.
Temporary interruptions in the availability of popular online services are a relatively common occurrence, although their impact has increased as more and more businesses outsource their digital infrastructure and tools to outside businesses, often large Internet companies. A decade ago, a Twitter Inc.
Crash – with the so-called “failure whale” error-boosting office productivity. Today, malfunctions can cause some companies to crawl.
In November, Amazon.com Inc.
Video-streaming device company Rogu is tied to an hour-long downturn tied to its massive cloud-computing functionality that has affected many of its customers’ operations. Inc.
In July, apps like SpotFi and Tinder crashed for hours due to Facebook Inc.
Said it was a bug in its software for iPhone users.
In March 2019, some Google services, including Gmail, became sluggish or inaccessible because the company called it a “layer failure” that began after its engineers made changes to the internal storage service. The same week, Apple offers services Inc.
And Facebook also experienced downtime.
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