The most essential products and services of google were down on 14th December 2020 from around 11:56 GMT. The hashtags #googledown and #youtubedown were trending on twitter, while the memes on the internet said "How should I Google that Google is not working?" This outage effected many users across the world and the trust of the users for the tech giant seemed to be deceiving.
The Google services and the error messages displayed were:
- YouTube: "Something went wrong" with a monkey
- Gmail: "We’re sorry, but your account is temporarily unavailable. We apologise for the inconvenience and suggest trying again in a few minutes. You can view the G Suite Status Dashboard for the current status of the service."
- Google Docs: "Google Docs encountered and error. Please try reloading this page, or coming back to it in a few minutes."
Although the Google has not officially commented on the outage yet, however a Google spokesperson said "Today, at 3.47AM PT (Pacific Time), Google experienced an authentication system outage for approximately 45 minutes due to an internal storage quota issue. Services requiring users to log in experienced high error rates during this period. The authentication system issue was resolved at 4:32AM PT. All services are now restored. We apologise to everyone affected, and we will conduct a thorough follow up review to ensure this problem cannot recur in the future"
As various third party applications/websites depend on Google based authentication (Sign in with Google) which is an Oauth 2 flow, hence some of those third party applications/websites would also focus on including a Facebook based (Sign in with Facebook) authentication method on their registration process. There might be a chance that Google stocks may take a small slump and Facebook stocks might rise up a bit, so invest accordingly.
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