Google Services Down: A Major Breakdown For The Tech Giant
As if 2020 hadn’t done enough, today shortly after 5 pm PST, Google services stopped working and have caused the whole internet to come to a standstill.
That Google Docs, Ads, Analytics, Console, and every other service would stop working was never not impossible, but now that it’s happened, we realize how being dependent on all of Google’s services is probably not the best idea.
probably a mistake to have so much of the internet into one single supplier?#Google
— Draft Punkh (@antifatwa) December 14, 2020
Since the “Google outage” users are being greeted by an Error page apologizing for the inconvenience and asking to try again.
The outage includes Google Docs, Gmail, Drive, and even YouTube. However, YouTube seems to be available on Incognito Mode, indicating that there may be an issue with the user authentication.
Update: As of 5:30 pm PST, most services have started working again and are now available again. This includes the Google Suite, Google Analytics, Google Ads and a few other tools. It’s expected that other tools will start coming back to life soon enough.
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Till then, you can browse through some of the memes we’ve come across since our free time due to Google services being down…
2020 really has it against everyone
What’s happening 2020?
The day came when you can’t even @Google what happened with @Google !
It’s #2020 and nothing is normal this year.#googledown pic.twitter.com/bxgSUFXOtY— Crisbin Joseph Mathew (@CrisbinJoseph) December 14, 2020
Jehan Ara from the Nest I/O really did get us with her Tweet
But why did I panic? Still had Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter and Instagram working. #GMailBreakdown
— jehan_ara (@jehan_ara) December 14, 2020
But in another world, if you know, you know
Your mans Google
🤝
LYING https://t.co/0iSE0JELb9— Bucky Stan Acct (@fay_alif) December 14, 2020
We’re still waiting for an update on why this happened. Stay tuned to this page to find out more.