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 have been 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, was offline until 6:55 am, in addition to email and storage, including its calendar, video conferencing tools, document editing service, and spreadsheets.
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 crash struck a chord with tens of thousands of people Stay home for the best part of the year Due to corona virus infection. 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 in the world, and the company’s G Suite office tools compete with it.
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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 relatively common occurrences, 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
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The malfunction – along with the bug picture known as the “failure whale” – boosted office productivity. Today, malfunctions can cause some companies to crawl.
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Bound with a The hourly shutdown is tied to its massive cloud-computing functionality Affected the operations of many of its customers, such as the video streaming device company
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In July, apps like Spotify and Tinder Experienced crashes for several hours Due to which
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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. Services from the same week
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And Facebook Also experienced malfunctions.
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