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.”