The Google search engine outage reportedly affected tens of thousands of users, and within hours, the social media network was inundated with tweets. According to Downdetector, which analyzes outages from many sources including user-submitted faults on its platform, over 40,000 occurrences were registered linked to the largest search engine in the world, according to media reports.
The top five updates on the Google outage are as follows:
- Google outages are typically infrequent. However, thousands of users reported problems at roughly 9 o’clock New York time.
- Nevertheless, the service seems to be mostly back online by 10 o’clock (Eastern Daylight Time).
- A “500 error” was said to have appeared in Google’s search section. The message that appeared read, “The server encountered a problem and could not complete your request.”
- Search and website loading issues with Google were also noted in Taiwan and Japan, but media claimed that the services looked to be patchy.
- Google hasn’t yet provided a response to this. According to a media article, back-end web infrastructure is frequently at blame for such breakdowns, which Fastly and Amazon Web Services both encountered last year.
