- Google services like YouTube, Gmail, and others were unavailable for users across the world.
- The Google services went down globally for approximately an hour a day.
- The Tech giant has itself confirmed the outage of its services.
- The authentication system issue of Google was resolved around 4:32 AM.
Multiple Google services went down for an hour, on Monday evening. It suffered a major outage in India and several parts of the world. Services like YouTube, Gmail, Drive, Calendar, Hangouts, and Assistant were unavailable.
Google has recently acknowledged the outage of its services around the globe. The company said on its status page that “it is aware of the problem affecting a majority of users.” Downdetector is a website that keeps records of web outages. It reported about 40,000 outage cases from around the world, just after 10 minutes of the outage.
What does Google confirm about the outage?
Google has confirmed on its service status page that all of its services were suffering from an outage around the globe. One of the Google services is Gmail, where the affected users were unable to access their mails. The same error message was displayed on all the other services, against which a red dot was shown. Recently, Google’s status page showed a green dot for all of the services, which was just after the outage began. For some users, Google Search seems to be working fine while some reported that even Google Search was not working.
How does the outage has affected web services?
The sudden outage of Google services has caused people to look for different solutions, which includes switching to different browsers to check if the situation gets alleviated by a little. Some users on Twitter tried using YouTube and Gmail on Microsoft Edge, Firefox, and Safari browsers to make these websites work but in vain. Now, Google Search is working better with any browser.
This outage has not only affected the web services but also caused the apps and smart devices to become temporarily inaccessible. Where Users are reporting that smart Nest speakers are failing to connect to Google servers. Some users have also reported that some games, including Pokemon Go, have also stopped working.
