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Google experienced a rare, wide outage connected August 9. The origin of the outage is presently unknown.
Reports flooded successful from Twitter connected Monday evening arsenic Google experienced a rare, wide outage.
Searchers astir the satellite were met with this mistake connection for a little play erstwhile utilizing Google:
According to Down Detector, the outage occurred astir 9:39 p.m Eastern and lasted for a small implicit 10 minutes.
Image Credit: Screenshot from downdetector.com/status/google/, August 2022.
Image Credit: Screenshot from downdetector.com/status/google/, August 2022.
By each accounts the outage is resolved astatine the clip of writing, though the lawsuit itself is worthy documenting. It surely didn’t spell unnoticed arsenic thousands of users took to Twitter to inquire if Google is down.
Here’s a illustration of immoderate of the tweets:
Had a Google hunt motor mistake for the archetypal clip ever. The motor was wholly down. It's truthful uncommon the archetypal happening I did was travel to Twitter to spot if thing large is going connected with the web. Conspiracy theories present we come! #google #error
— Ryan Baker (@RyanBakerSLO) August 9, 2022
me utilizing twitter arsenic a hunt motor to cheque if google is down pic.twitter.com/GjNRoA3WzW
— val♥ (@omlitsari) August 9, 2022
JUST IN: Google Search is presently facing large web outages for millions of radical crossed 40+ countries. pic.twitter.com/B5GxUIVTHw
— CryptoWhale (@CryptoWhale) August 9, 2022
What Caused The August 9 Google Outage?
The origin of the outage is not known astatine this time. Google has yet to officially admit a occupation occurred.
Major quality organizations who were speedy to leap connected the story, including Reuters and CNBC, accidental Google hasn’t responded to requests for comment.
Earlier successful the time determination was reportedly an detonation astatine a Google information halfway successful Iowa that injured 3 technicians.
Some quality outlets are moving with the communicative that the 2 events are connected, though that has yet to beryllium confirmed.
Electrical detonation reported astatine Google's information halfway successful Iowa, 3 electricians critically injured – KETV
— BNO News (@BNONews) August 9, 2022
🚨#BREAKING: Reports of detonation astatine Google information halfway successful Iowa
Right present Thousands to cardinal of users wherever having large issues with the web hunt work google arsenic it was presently down arsenic reports accidental an detonation has occurred astatine Google information halfway pic.twitter.com/fh9TFGRE9Q
— R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) August 9, 2022
The reported detonation astatine a Google information halfway successful Iowa happened astir noon, according to this reporthttps://t.co/tmf8ezm0MD
— Steve Lookner (@lookner) August 9, 2022
This communicative volition beryllium updated if and erstwhile determination are much details to report.
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Matt G. Southern
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Matt G. Southern, Senior News Writer, has been with Search Engine Journal since 2013. With a bachelor’s grade successful communications, ...
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