Published On:Saturday, 17 August 2013
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Google Down for 5 minutes, Web Traffic Falls Down
Search engine giant Google which recently improvised their cloud storage security by automatically encrypting all data stored inn by their customers for free has recently been an victim of outage for few minutes.
Google's services, including the popular Google Search, suffered an outage and didn't respond for few minutes on early Saturday morning. The outage was noticed around 4.20 am IST (6:50 am EST) and lasted for almost 5 mins. All Google services were disrupted which includes Gmail, Drive, Maps and G Chat. If a user tried to access Gmail or Google Search, the web browser returned 502 error.
Around one hour later, GoSquared, a web analytics firm, said that it noticed a 40% dip in the pageviews.
"Google.com was down for a few minutes between 23:52 and 23:57 BST on 16th August 2013. This had a huge effect in the number of pageviews coming into GoSquared's real-time tracking — around a 40% drop, as this graph of our global pageviews per minute shows," noted GoSquared. "That's huge. As internet users, our reliance on google.com being up is huge."
Google's services dashboard that monitors and shows the status of Google services had a pink dot in front of each one, indicating that they were offline for the said duration. Clicking on each dot, revealed a generic message confirming the outage.
Around ten minutes after the outage was reported, Google engineers added to the dashboard that all problems had been resolved and the services were running fine.
The app dashboard for Gmail had the following message for users:
We’re aware of a problem with Gmail affecting a significant subset of users. The affected users are able to access Gmail, but are seeing error messages and/or other unexpected behavior.
Google hasn't made any statement yet on what caused the outage.
Google's services, including the popular Google Search, suffered an outage and didn't respond for few minutes on early Saturday morning. The outage was noticed around 4.20 am IST (6:50 am EST) and lasted for almost 5 mins. All Google services were disrupted which includes Gmail, Drive, Maps and G Chat. If a user tried to access Gmail or Google Search, the web browser returned 502 error.
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"Google.com was down for a few minutes between 23:52 and 23:57 BST on 16th August 2013. This had a huge effect in the number of pageviews coming into GoSquared's real-time tracking — around a 40% drop, as this graph of our global pageviews per minute shows," noted GoSquared. "That's huge. As internet users, our reliance on google.com being up is huge."
Google's services dashboard that monitors and shows the status of Google services had a pink dot in front of each one, indicating that they were offline for the said duration. Clicking on each dot, revealed a generic message confirming the outage.
Around ten minutes after the outage was reported, Google engineers added to the dashboard that all problems had been resolved and the services were running fine.
The app dashboard for Gmail had the following message for users:
We’re aware of a problem with Gmail affecting a significant subset of users. The affected users are able to access Gmail, but are seeing error messages and/or other unexpected behavior.
Google hasn't made any statement yet on what caused the outage.
