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Google services resume after massive outage hits Gmail, YouTube in multiple countries

Alphabet Inc faced a rare outage that saw users unable to use products such as Gmail, YouTube, Google docs among others for nearly an hour.

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New Delhi: Services from Alphabet Inc experienced widespread outages around the world Monday, preventing people from using products such as a Gmail, YouTube and Google Docs.

Errors such as “something went wrong” showed up for people trying to use the products. The rare outage saw people flood social media with messages.

After a nearly an hour, services resumed. Google confirmed there is a service outage for a majority of its services, according to a Workspace Status Dashboard, which monitors the health of its products.

Products such as Google Drive, Maps, Google Pay, Calendar, Adwords, Google Sheets, Hangouts, and Google Meet also didn’t work during the outage. However, the search engine and the workspace dashboard remained functional.

The official Twitter account for YouTube, Alphabet Inc’s video streaming platform, posted to the micro-blogging site, saying it was aware of the issues and the team was looking into it.

 


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