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On 20 August 2020, over a period of approximately six hours, a global outage abruptly disrupted Google's suite of services, including Gmail, Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Meet, and Google Voice. [21] The outage is reported to have started around 06:30 UTC. Google acknowledged the worldwide disruption in the G Suite Status Dashboard. [22]
Google users in the U.S., Europe, India and other parts of the world were briefly unable to access their Gmail accounts, watch YouTube videos or get to their online documents during an outage Monday.
On 24 February 2009, Gmail suffered a two and a half hour outage, affecting 100 million accounts. [26] On 7 July 2009, Gmail officially exited its beta status in a move to attract more business use of the service. [27] [28] On 1 September 2009, Gmail suffered another outage for several hours. [29]
On June 21, the Internet in Burma was shut down by the government. The Burmese government shut down the internet connection in nine townships of the northern Arakan State and one single township in the Southern Chin State, which was proposed by Burmese Military officers. The shutdown is ongoing, and has become the world's longest internet shutdown.
Gmail's existence is also why other free email services and the internal email accounts that employees use on their jobs offer far more storage than was fathomed 20 years ago.
Gmail is the email service provided by Google.As of 2019, it had 1.5 billion active users worldwide, making it the largest email service in the world. [1] It also provides a webmail interface, accessible through a web browser, and is also accessible through the official mobile application.
Brussels wants to crack down on digital ads aimed at children over concerns about privacy and manipulation. Some platforms already started tightening up ahead of Friday's deadline, even beyond Europe.
After 2005, the service encountered rapid growth before running into a series of problems starting in 2010. In February 2012, the service was permanently shut down by its creator due to a combination of throttling of search requests by Google and a denial-of-service attack by an unknown person or group. [108]