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Google Outage: Internet Traffic Plunges 40%

Posted by samzenpus on from the have-some-google dept.

cold fjord writes "Is 40% anything to worry about? Sky News reports, 'Worldwide internet traffic plunged by around 40% as Google services suffered a complete black-out, according to web analytics experts. The tech company said all of its services from Google Search to Gmail to YouTube to Google Drive went down for between one and five minutes last night. The reason for the outage is not yet known, and Google refused to provide any further information when contacted by Sky News Online. According to web analytics firm GoSquared, global internet traffic fell by around 40% during the black-out, reflecting Google's massive grip on the web. "That's huge," said GoSquared developer Simon Tabor. "As internet users, our reliance on Google.com being up is huge."'

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  1. Google.com? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I use google.fr, you insensitive clod!

    1. Re:Google.com? by Noughmad · · Score: 5, Funny

      If you use google.fr, that's insensitive Claude for you!

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  2. NSA? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Reason for the outage:

    NSA has been tinkering with google servers, to milk as much info as possible before more google customer draining happens.

  3. Google isn't part of the internet anymore by Arancaytar · · Score: 5, Funny

    The internet is now part of Google.

  4. Re:Details on Google Apps Status Dashboard by arglebargle_xiv · · Score: 4, Funny

    Did their certificates expire?

  5. Could've been worse by Sockatume · · Score: 5, Funny

    Imagine if the NSA servers went down, nothing would be getting through.

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  6. Re:How many people don't know a 2nd search engine? by jez9999 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah, when Google crashes it's no problem for me; find some other search engines and bing! I'm surfing again in no time.

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  7. Re:As I keep having to say to my older family.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Pro Tip: Rather than Googling 'Facebook' you could use a bookmark, or try www.facebook.com

    I like how this is modded +5 Informative. Thanks for the handy tip! I shall bookmark this page in perpetuity so that I never forget.

  8. Re:How many people don't know a 2nd search engine? by JustOK · · Score: 5, Funny

    but how can you find other search engines without googling them?

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  9. Re:Not surprising by Meneth · · Score: 4, Funny

    Remember when some blogger replaced Facebook as the first search result for "facebook"? He got tons of comments asking why they couldn't log in anymore.

  10. Re:As I keep having to say to my older family.. by yotto · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'll just search for "site:slashdot.org how do I get to facebook without using google"

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  11. Re:Youtube by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    If it was night everywhere at the same time then that could be a reason for it, yes.

  12. Re:How many people don't know a 2nd search engine? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    People at my work have Bing set as their default search so they literally Bing, Google click on the link and then Google what they were actually looking for, it's insane.

  13. That reminds me by Mister+Liberty · · Score: 3, Funny

    The past participle of google is googled.
    What is the p.p. of bing? bung?

    1. Re:That reminds me by WhiteEagle1980 · · Score: 3, Funny

      With sing it's sang, so maybe it's bang. "I couldn't google anything on my girlfriend, but I bang her every so often."

  14. Re:How many people don't know a 2nd search engine? by JustOK · · Score: 3, Funny

    yah, I'll google how to use that.

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  15. Re:NSA Wiretap installed by jafiwam · · Score: 4, Funny

    NSA installed one of it's man.in.the.middle data centers perhaps.

    Yup. Microsoft had their man-in-the-middle stuff form the NSA installed last week, causing their outage of cloud and email services.

    Either that, or there's a glitch in the Matrix and we'll have to climb down the main wet-wall rather than the fire escape.