[Infowarrior] - GMail outage

[Richard Forno]

Google's popular Gmail service dropped offline for a bit at midday Friday.
by Seth Rosenblatt
January 24, 2014 11:15 AM PST

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-57617763-92/gmail-takes-a-friday-timeout/

Google's Gmail service, which provides e-mail for around 450 million people, went offline Friday morning around 11:04 a.m. PT. Service began to return for many Gmail users 25 minutes later, although some are still without full service.

A Google spokesperson said that the company is looking into the outage.

Google quickly updated its apps status dashboard to reflect that Gmail was down. Officially, the company flagged the outage as a "service disruption," and not an "service outage," although that's probably little consolation to people who weren't able to access their Gmail. Google has updated the dashboard to show service disruptions for Gmail, Calendar, Talk, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drawings, Sites, Group, and Google+ Hangouts.

Coincidentally, Google site reliability engineers were hosting a Reddit "Ask Me Anything" during Gmail's naptime.

Twitter exploded with the expected snark of the masses, including competitor Yahoo, which also tweeted the news with a screenshot. Yahoo Mail itself suffered a multiday outage last month.

Update at 12:25 p.m. to add that most Google services have been disrupted.

Update at 11:40 a.m. to add context.

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