Internet users worldwide received a jarring reminder on Monday about just how reliant they were on Google, when the Silicon Valley giant suffered a major outage for about an hour, sending many of its most popular services offline. As users scrambled to figure out what was going on, Google disclosed the outages on a status dashboard that shares information about its various services. But about an hour after the outages began, the services started working again. Google initially provided limited information about what occurred, and it was not immediately clear how many users were affected by the outage. Several of Google’s products have more than a billion global users, including Android, Chrome, Gmail, Google Drive, Google Maps, Google Play, Search and YouTube.

Source: International New York Times December 14, 2020 12:38 UTC