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UPDATED: Multiple Google services — including YouTube and Gmail — were unavailable for users across the globe Monday for about an hour due to what appeared to be widespread technical problems.
The first was a five-minute outage of every Google service in August 2013. The second was a 25-minute outage of Gmail, Google+, Google Calendar, and Google Docs in January 2014. The third was a YouTube outage in October 2018. The fourth was a Gmail/Google Drive outage in August 2020. The fifth, in November 2020, affected mainly YouTube, and the ...
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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]
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 7 June 2005, The Gmail Invitation Spooler was deactivated by the site owner, following a direct request from the Gmail product manager to shut it down. The service was featured in Popular Science magazine and had given out over 1.2 million Gmail accounts. [16]
The Google Public DNS service also slowed down as a result of the outage, [19] while users of Gmail, TikTok, and Snapchat also experienced slowdowns. [20] CNBC reported that the outage was the worst experienced by Facebook since 2008. [ 21 ]
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.