Multiple Google services and websites including YouTube, Gmail, Google Assistant, and Google Docs were down for around an hour on Monday morning after being hit with a massive outage.
Google acknowledged the issues with Gmail, affecting both its business and personal services, at 6:55AM ET, and said the problem was fixed for the “vast majority” of users at 7:52AM ET.
All of Google’s services reported an outage at one point. Some users found YouTube was still functional if they visited it in an incognito browser without signing in.
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Google Workspace apps like Docs and Meet were also down.
Users also reported that smart home gadgets integrated with Google Assistant were experiencing issues.
Third-party apps and services that rely on Google’s back end services, like Pokémon Go, were also hit by problems.
However, despite the outage affecting numerous Google services, its core search product continued to function, and third-party ads were still showing in results.
Many users have taken to the Twitter community to react and lay their complaints, making “Google” trend number 1 on Twitter with 1.33 million Tweets at the time of writing.
See various reactions below:
#YouTubeDOWN
*Google and You tube down**Meanwhile Me Who sleeps till afternoon-: pic.twitter.com/OrE993MpmA
— crypto cartel (@cryptocarte) December 14, 2020
#googledown This is the only thing left for us to see in 2020.
Nobody will forget this year?@Google pic.twitter.com/KQ2egvVLpD— Sandeep (@san_deepthghts) December 14, 2020
https://twitter.com/TLPJakeAndreski/status/1338478593446469633?s=19
https://twitter.com/kingibie23/status/1338477434530918402?s=19
https://twitter.com/viivecasm/status/1338479194347433986?s=19
Google servers are down and we can’t do anything anymore. No emails, no docs, some can’t even turn on their lights. It’s quite scary to think about how centralised technologies are and how this could easily turn into a disa… nevermind, it’s back online now. Forget about it.
— Florian Herrengt (@florianherrengt) December 14, 2020
