Google Outage: Internet Traffic Plunges 40% 352
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."'
Google.com? (Score:4, Funny)
I use google.fr, you insensitive clod!
NSA? (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.
Google isn't part of the internet anymore (Score:5, Funny)
The internet is now part of Google.
Re:Details on Google Apps Status Dashboard (Score:5, Funny)
Could've been worse (Score:5, Funny)
Imagine if the NSA servers went down, nothing would be getting through.
Re:How many people don't know a 2nd search engine? (Score:5, 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.
Re:As I keep having to say to my older family.. (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.
Re:How many people don't know a 2nd search engine? (Score:5, Funny)
but how can you find other search engines without googling them?
Re:Not surprising (Score:5, Funny)
Re:As I keep having to say to my older family.. (Score:5, Funny)
I'll just search for "site:slashdot.org how do I get to facebook without using google"
Re:Youtube (Score:3, Funny)
If it was night everywhere at the same time then that could be a reason for it, yes.
Re:Google.com? (Score:5, Funny)
If you use google.fr, that's insensitive Claude for you!
Re:How many people don't know a 2nd search engine? (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.
That reminds me (Score:4, Funny)
The past participle of google is googled.
What is the p.p. of bing? bung?
Re:How many people don't know a 2nd search engine? (Score:4, Funny)
yah, I'll google how to use that.
Re:NSA Wiretap installed (Score:5, 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.
Re:That reminds me (Score:3, Funny)