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.
We are aware that many of you are having issues accessing YouTube right now – our team is aware and looking into it. We'll update you here as soon as we have more news.
— TeamYouTube (@TeamYouTube) December 14, 2020
Is your Google calendar down? Wondering what is up with YouTube? You are far from alone YouTube, Gmail and Docs all down right now. Also our next guest having issues… will we have him? @fox59
— Angela Ganote (@angelaganote) December 14, 2020
Even @Google is down.
2020 is the year showed us the anything can end.#नश्वर दुनिया pic.twitter.com/1LvsHlCmch— Rickenstein (@The_Rickenstein) December 14, 2020
Hey I can't load my google sheet. All of my work schedule in sheet.
Gmail is not working, Whole google products not working at all@GoogleIndia @googledevs #Google #serverdown pic.twitter.com/jDh2JwWqq3— Ajmal N (@ajmal_n77) December 14, 2020
Majority of users in my network are facing problems in @Gmail, @YouTube and other @google services. Are you experiencing the same? #YouTubeDOWN pic.twitter.com/WBjUDEJ9Wp
— Sagar Pokhrel (@NepaliSagar) December 14, 2020
Panicking now about the extent to which I rely on @Google. Can’t be good https://t.co/aAbEAuPJya
— Fiona Millar (@schooltruth) December 14, 2020
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