Google Inc. is blaming this morning’s Google Apps service outage on a system error that caused a major traffic jam.The company reported that the outage, which started a little before 11 a.m. EDT, caused about 14% of Google users to face slow service or interruptions. The problem affected all Google products, including Google Search, Google News, Gmail, Google Maps and Google Reader.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9133109
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/051409-google-blames-outage-on-system.htmlAlso see:Google Stumbles
Google gasped Thursday morning–and many others on the Internet shuddered.By mid morning in New York City, the Google outage seemed to be system-wide: its search, calendar, e-mail … everything associated with the company seems slow or entirely down.
http://www.forbes.com/2009/05/14/google-down-internet-slow-internet-technology-google.html
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