May 14, 2009

It's nice that you can put all your eggs into the Google basket. But it's not nice when your basket is suddenly missing.

This morning I have not been able to check my email, read past emails, can't get to Google news...

And it's rather disconcerting that my first effort to find out if it was a problem on my end was to do a Google search to find sites with live updates on Google's status. That didn't work out too well. But I found a couple of ways to find out if other people are having Google trouble and so I thought I'd share them with you:

I found this blog post: No Google for You!

And realized that I can, in future, search that site for posts tagged 'Google' or 'Gmail' when this sort of thing occurs.

Searching for Google got me this info:

In the States, I've heard from users in NYC, Chicago, and San Francisco. They all report that Google searches were running at historically low speeds. I've heard similar reports from users Europe and Australia.

In addition, Google services like Google News and Gmail are completely failing. The Internet Storm Center is saying that it's received multiple "reports of a total fail of Google Applications. Gmail, Reader, Docs, News, Apps. etc."

So that's another highly valuable resource: The Internet Storm Center.

Summary: Google is down, Whoknew.us is up.

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