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.
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.
— TeamYouTube (@TeamYouTube) December 14, 2020
As news of the outage spread, internet users took to Twitter and #googledown began trending, and users came up with hilarious memes and tweets.
Trying to google why google is down #YouTubeDOWN #GoogleDown pic.twitter.com/Z9acIapoDb
— Rosan (@RosanK96) December 14, 2020
#YouTubeDOWN#googledown#gmail
— Shubham Kumar (@Trolltrivedi) December 14, 2020
YouTube, Google down
People blaming year 2020
2020???????? :- pic.twitter.com/H3Z53CYqEG
Gmail, YouTube & Google are down. Has anyone tried turning it off and on again? #googledown pic.twitter.com/fY677F1Uun
— Carlitos (@CarlitosDghty) December 14, 2020
Gmail, YouTube & Google are down. Has anyone tried turning it off and on again? #googledown pic.twitter.com/fY677F1Uun
— Carlitos (@CarlitosDghty) December 14, 2020
One user even pointed out: "If you type 'Is Google down?' into Google, it'll tell you it's not down. #GoogleDown."
If you type 'Is Google down?' into Google, it'll tell you it's not down. ???? #GoogleDown pic.twitter.com/BeISGoPMuc
— Stephen Anfield (he/him) (@StephenAnfield) December 14, 2020
#googledown
— Vedang (@vedangmandhana) December 14, 2020
Bing, Yahoo, Baidu, DuckDuckGo right now: pic.twitter.com/AMiTjgK3Na
When you thought your wifi is down but
— kalla (@koi_sense_hai) December 14, 2020
It was Google
Surprise madf#googledown #YouTubeDOWN pic.twitter.com/77gNSedhjr
Everyone after restarting wifi, running troubleshoot, rewiring, OS update and system repair, realising that #Google is actually #down .
— Chrisbin Sunny (@chrisbinsunny) December 14, 2020
Every Google services except Google Search is down.#googledown #GoogleDown pic.twitter.com/TULnNkpHL1
With input from Reuters
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