Saturday, May 16, 2009

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Gmail, Google News 3.5-Hour Outage Blamed on System Error

Google says a system error resulting in a Web traffic jam in Asia led to the early-morning outage of Google News and Gmail, two essential components of the search engine giant. While the outages of services such as Gmail are usually only temporary, the popularity of these Google services often means that any problem instantly becomes news.

Google experienced slowdowns and outages to its Google News and Gmail services on the morning of May 14.

Users of those services reacted in a variety of ways. On Twitter, which has a search function that allows for a near-real-time survey of what people are microblogging on various topics, users alternately shrugged off the outage or expressed harsher opinions. "I didn't even know about the outage until [I] saw [the] news," one wrote, while another opined, "Epic fail whale this morning."

Users reported that other Google services, such as YouTube, were also showing slower activity.

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