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Here's the statement we got back from a Google spokesperson about this morning's seemingly large outage in the Washington, D.C. area: "The issue affecting some Google services has been resolved. We’re sorry for the inconvenience, and we'll share more details soon." So basically, not really an answer at all. We'd press them on the issue, but today's outage really drove home how completely and totally this company appears to have taken over our ability to function on a daily basis. Angering The Google would be like hanging up a big sign in our yard saying "We Hate Oprah" in Chicago. You really shouldn't do that if you value your life. UPDATE: More from the Official Google blog: "An error in one of our systems caused us to direct some of our web traffic through Asia, which created a traffic jam. As a result, about 14% of our users experienced slow services or even interruptions. We've been working hard to make our services ultrafast and "always on," so it's especially embarrassing when a glitch like this one happens. We're very sorry that it happened, and you can be sure that we'll be working even harder to make sure that a similar problem won't happen again."
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Here's the statement from the official Google blog.
So most of DC happened to be within that 14%, I guess...
From the time I read your post in my reader to the time I posted my comment, it seems we had seen the same thing on the Google blog. I feel useless.
Come on now. Do some research. This outage wasn't restricted to the DC area. Large swaths of the country, and possibly the world, were affected.
"Not all Internet users were affected, but some that use larger providers--such as AT&T or Verizon--appeared to be disproportionately hurt because large ISPs "peer" with Google, or interconnect their networks with Google's networks in order to improve speed and reduce bandwith costs, Alperovitch said. Not all customers at those providers were affected, and smaller ISPs that didn't interconnect their networks were able to route around the problem"
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10241126-93.html?tag=newsLeadStoriesArea.1
it looks likes this is a slightly less vague explaination - not sure why they couldn't just respond to you with the reason. also, if google is broken, and updates are posted on the google blog, does it make a sound?
aaaand, i'm late to the party, per usual.
Dude like I said in a previous post: Google is SkyNet. So you better watch out!
Dude like I said in a previous post: Google is SkyNet. So you better watch out!
They had just posted that, and emailed me the link as soon as it went up. Don't feel useless!
I appreciate your kind words, Sommer, but I think the only thing that can bring me out of this feeling of uselessness is another Ice Cream-pocalypse. ::crosses fingers::
Boy, oh boy. Google goes down and the whole world goes mad!!! That's when you know you own the planet.
I knew I should have made a left turn at Albequerque
in light of everyone's freakout, this may also be a good time for a googlezon refresher.
phew, I completely lost my shit there. I just gazed at my computer trying to remember how communicate and map stuff.