Google, YouTube, Gmail Down in India: Google has not yet commented on the outage
Gmail - one of the most popular email providers in the world - and several other services offered by Internet giant Google, including messaging service Hangouts and video-sharing website YouTube, were offline for over an hour Monday evening for thousands of users across the world.
The services that were unavailable included Google Drive, which is used by individuals and businesses to create, store and share documents, spreadsheets, presentations and more. Google search, however, remained accessible.
Google has not yet commented on the outage but a verified Twitter handle belonging to YouTube said it was aware some users were having "issues accessing" its service.
"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," YouTube said.
As news of the outage spread, internet users took to Twitter and #googledown began trending, and users came up with hilarious memes and tweets.
One user even pointed out: "If you type 'Is Google down?' into Google, it'll tell you it's not down. #GoogleDown."
With input from Reuters