Google search outage affects tens of thousands of users


User reports of issues with the service began inundating Downdetector, an outage-tracking service focused on the US, from around 9pm New York time on Monday and numbered more than 40,000 an hour later. — AFP Relaxnews

Alphabet Inc’s Google search and website temporarily stopped working for some users, setting off confusion and a torrent of memes about what to do without the world’s most popular online engine.

User reports of issues with the service began inundating Downdetector, an outage-tracking service focused on the US, from around 9pm New York time on Monday and numbered more than 40,000 an hour later. Problems loading the Google website and performing searches were also observed in Taiwan and Japan, though the services appeared to be intermittently available.

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