Google Fails, Talks about Flight Paths to Asia
Google issued an apology for a problem with the company’s system that saw disruptions spanning several Google services for extended periods of time last week.
The problem began with Google’s search engine. However, Google owns many an internet service and they too began to feel the effects with users of Gmail, Google News and Youtube complaining that they could not access the services.
Google claims the outage lasted for roughly an hour Thursday morning and says that the reason for the outages was that some traffic was mistakenly routed through Asia. In a sort of round about way using plan and flight route analogies, the company explains that roughly 14 percent of users were affected by last week’s technical problems.
Google went on to say that it was very sorry that the problem had occurred at all and that it was working to ensure that the problem didn’t reoccur. Anyone here feel the effects of what people are calling Googlefail? Let us know below!
Full statement from Google:
"Imagine if you were trying to fly from New York to San Francisco, but your plane was routed through an airport in Asia. And a bunch of other planes were sent that way too, so your flight was backed up and your journey took much longer than expected. That's basically what happened to some of our users today for about an hour, starting at 7:48 am Pacific time.
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. All planes are back on schedule now."
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I was confused when I couldn't access my GMAIL Thursday morning. But I tried an hour later and it was fine, so big deal, my life didn't end because my email was down for a few minutes. As for search, Live search is almost a clone of google search now, so I use that by default anyways because it has a new pretty picture every day.
@apmyhr - Limited view of things.
Many website use google services to operate, Google Analytics being one. If that's down, your own website will not function well. Add in the google maps and the spreadsheets that thump out a bit of data here and there. Google being down is a huge problem for a lot of people. Also most of their tools are really good and free! So replacing them isn't great for small Businesses .
I had to use yahoo as a search engine... I don't think I'll recover