OAKLAND, Calif. — Google users experienced a widespread service disruption for just over an hour on Thursday evening that affected the company’s email, YouTube and Google documents services. The outages seemed to be focused around the eastern coast of the United States, according to Downdetector, a website that tracks internet disruptions. The Downdetector heat maps for Gmail, YouTube, Google Drive, Google’s search engine and other Google services showed a significant number of people having trouble accessing those websites starting at around 8:50 p.m. Eastern. The services seemed to be working normally by around 10 p.m. Google did not provide a reason for the disruption. On its online dashboard, Google said at 9:30 p.m. Eastern that it was “aware of a problem with Gmail affecting a significant subset of its users.” It posted a similar message for Google Calendar and its videoconferencing service.

Source: New York Times September 25, 2020 01:57 UTC