Full FeedWorst Week: Google
This past Thursday was a traumatic experience for many Google users. For almost an hour, users experienced severe delays, and in some cases a complete lack of access, to several of Google’s apps, such as GMail, Search, and Maps, to name a few. It was preceded by a Google News outage (apparently due to to updating the site to add YouTube video links) that ended up lasting for about 3.5 hours. A search for #googlefail on Twitter reads like an unforgiving play by play of the outages.
Google News is up. No, it’s not.
Google has apologized for the incidents and posted an explanation for them on the official Google blog. Well, Google better get busy writing again because there has already been another outage. Google News suffered server errors again Friday morning for about an hour, so users, like myself, had to go looking for morning news somewhere else. With back to back outages, Google is going to need some serious PR help after this week is over. Any service outages are bad, but when they happen during prime hours of the day, it is even worse.
More than just Google properties down.
Businesses who rely on Google’s services, in particular, need reliability. If the events of the last two days are the start of a recurring pattern, Google is going to have to work to rebuild the trust of its business users to keep them from jumping ship. Not to mention the rest of us who use the Google suite on a daily basis to manage our personal lives. There’s no denying it - whether business or personal, Google outages can cause havoc. This week’s events are just a reminder that putting all your eggs in one virtual basket can lead to bad things.
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It was a terrible week for Google. The ad apps went down for maintenance yesterday too!
on May 17, 2009 at 06:49 AM - LINKIf your mail is so critical, why are you using (or even paying for) a service that’s still in Beta!
on May 18, 2009 at 07:41 AM - LINKAll you that it is running under Beta version than why you are using. Who told you to use under beta. If any problem Persist then at that time no one will be the responsible. Only we the user of the current user will be responsible….So be carefully log on and try to ignore unknown messages. etc…Try the Best. have a Nice Day…..........
on May 25, 2009 at 08:56 AM - LINK