Alphabet Inc’s Google was down for thousands of users on Monday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. Google search was not the only service impacted. The outage also impacted a range of other Google products such as Google Photos, Google Maps, Google Drive, Google Duo, etc. The services appear to be back now.
According to Google’s own app status dashboard there’s no reflection of an outage. Google has not yet issued a statement on the same. There were more than 40,000 incidents of people reporting issues with the world’s largest search engine, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources including user-submitted errors on its platform.
Meanwhile, users took to Twitter to mock about the outage, with Google search being down. The hashtag #googledown was trending on the platform. Check out some tweets from users.
Most users encountered a 500 error, which indicates a server problem. Google services appear to be back up for most users in India for now. Let us know if you are still facing an issue.
Update: Google has now acknowledged the issue and stated that a “software update issue” was the culprit behind the outage.
“We’re aware of a software update issue that briefly affected availability of Google Search and Maps, and we apologize for the inconvenience. We worked to quickly address the issue and our services are now back online,” the company said in a statement.
Multiple Twitter users are reporting an outage that affects several Google services including the company's iconic search engine. Google Maps, Google Photos, Google Drive, Google Duo, GMail, and YouTube are some of the other services that users are reportedly experiencing difficulty accessing this morning, according to Downdetector. The issues began at around 6:37am IST when reports of problems began to rise above the baseline and by 7:07am there were over 41,000 such complaints. The affected services started returning to normal by 7:22am but issues seem to have persisted for some users till at least this time, according to the outage tracker. No cause for the disruption has yet been established.
On Twitter, user reactions ranged from amused to surprised, with several users remarking that they had never seen Google Search go down before. Outages were reported anecdotally from across the United States, Australia, and India. Several users posted screenshots showing messages about an internal server error rather than their expected search results.
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