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Google is down

by joebeetee on 10/31/18, 7:14 PM with 11 comments

• by ninetax on 10/31/18, 7:18 PM

  Incredible that I've used Google all my life and it's taken until today for me to see an outage. A testament to the SREs at Google.

  If anyone hasn't see the Google SRE book, I highly recommend it. https://landing.google.com/sre/books/

• by thinkingkong on 10/31/18, 7:20 PM

  Seems to be back up.

  I can't remember the last time it went down but I hope they're transparent about what happened. I'm sure we could all learn something about how to manage large globally distributed search engines of our own...

• by quico on 10/31/18, 7:19 PM

  It's back up. It was down for about a minute here. Impressively quick fix.

• by jhgg on 10/31/18, 7:17 PM

  Tried to google “is google down”... oops.

• by Finster on 10/31/18, 7:26 PM

  Works on my machine

• by senectus1 on 11/1/18, 1:00 AM

  what does the phrase "google is down" even mean in this world?

  I mean its the largest and most well spread internet service company in the world. "google" isn't just one service is a massive collection of services.

  which part is down, in which area at which time and in which circumstance...?

  It just seems like such an absurd phrase in this day and age.

• by tomschlick on 10/31/18, 7:18 PM

  It's up for me.

• by mockindignant on 10/31/18, 7:19 PM

  Working fine for me.