The Search Engine, Google and its Services went Down during Early Hours of the Day
Google and most of its related services were found to go down during the early hours of August 9. The huge outage appeared which had affected several Google services along with the company's iconic search engine. Google Maps, Google Photos, Google Drive, Google Duo, GMail, and YouTube were some of the other services that thousands of users had faced difficulty accessing this morning.
HIGHLIGHTS
- Google Maps, Photos, Drive, Duo, GMail, and YouTube were inaccessible to users
- At 6:37 a.m. IST the outage began and by 7:22am all the services were back online
- The outage was reported from the places of the United States, Australia, and India
The outage issues began at around 6:37 a.m. IST it was the time when the problems started to rise above the baseline and by 7:07am there were over 41,000 such complaints. By 7:22am, the affected services went to normal and no such cause for disruption has been established. Well, Google was fast to address its issue and currently, all the services are back to online.
There were multiple users across the world they all had encountered the Error 500 messages and were unable to access any of these services. Some users reaction on Twitter ranged from amused to surprised, there were several users who claimed that they had never seen Google Search go down before. Basically, the issue of outage was reported from the places of the United States, Australia, and India. Therefore, many users were found posting the screenshots showing the messages about an internal server error rather than their expected search results. No one would have ever expected that Google would ever go down like this that too even during the early hours of the day.
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