Google is down, the whole internet is in a panic
It regularly happens that certain sites, especially social networks such as Twitter, Facebook or Instagram, collapse. However, it is much rarer when it comes to a search engine, especially with the web giant Google !
Huge failure for thousands of Internet users
In fact, on Monday evening Tens of thousands of Internet users had to cope with a glitch at Google. The latter reported around 9:36 p.m. or 3:36 a.m. this Tuesday morning (09 August) French time. Affected users trying to access Google services were redirected to an error page stating that the company’s servers did not respond.
I assume they took off #Google Servers are affecting everything operated by Alphabet as Google Maps is also offline. #Googledown pic.twitter.com/z6CWZkfbA8
According to website DownDetectorwas this problem reported by at least 42,000 people having issues with Gmail, Google Maps, and Google Images.
For its part, the company responded to AFP after this glitch. A spokesman said came from a software update that took place earlier in the afternoon and the “temporarily affecting the availability of Google Search and Google Maps“. The web giant’s teams worked quickly to solve the problem and restore services.
Google Down: a viral trend on Twitter
Very fast, The Google outage went viral on Twitter, where the topic trended.
Everyone goes to Twitter because Google is down#googledown pic.twitter.com/457XHhiJ3q
I omw to twitter to check if google is down for anyone else as i can’t google it #googledown pic.twitter.com/g797tcAv1q
“I go to Twitter to see if Google is down on someone else because I can’t google them.”
I’m switching to twitter after encountering error 500 in google#Google #googledown pic.twitter.com/hu4TMsB2K5
“I’m switching to Twitter after running into error 500 on Google”
is @Google really down now?!? Or is that just a problem of mine? #googledown pic.twitter.com/jgWWQwjkO2
“Is Google really down right now?!? Or am I just the problem?”
We all come to Twitter to confirm that Google is down #googledown pic.twitter.com/DXyh15ChUx
“We all come to Twitter to confirm Google is down”
Google shows an error for the first time. This day will be remembered \ud83d\ude00#Google #Error #googledown pic.twitter.com/779jOhJxva
“Google shows an error for the first time. This day will be remembered”
I’m trying to fix the Google servers myself #googledown pic.twitter.com/vWevqAxz5Z
“I’m trying to fix Google servers myself”
The world when Google is down. 🙂#googledown #Google pic.twitter.com/KVX0qAIRPQ
“The world when Google is down”
Google engineers use Bing to fix Google! \ud83e\udd23 #GoogleDown #ITHumor #funny pic.twitter.com/U14QD5R2ck
“Google engineers using Bing to fix Google”
College students with homework due at midnight #googledown: pic.twitter.com/4f06T9uBC4
“Students who had an assignment due at midnight and saw Google down”.
No doubt: if Google goes down, a whole part of the internet goes down, and feedback is always very important. However, the company worked quickly to resolve the issue and as of now, the issue appears to be resolved.
