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The affected infrastructure's traffic was diverted away at 04:43 UTC. Google stated that a power failure in one of the region's three zones, europe-west3-c, led to an electrical arc, leading them to partially shut down the zone to avoid thermal damage since the building's cooling infrastructure was also degraded. [51]
In April 2021, Google Chat indeed became free as an "Early Access" service, for users who choose to use it instead of Hangouts. [32] On June 27, 2022, Google officially announced they would be shutting down Google Hangouts on November 1, 2022 and migrating all users to Google Chat. [33]
On October 4, 2021, at around 11:45 AM EST, the online social media site Facebook went down, as well as Facebook subsidiaries including Instagram and WhatsApp. Around 4:00 PM EST, people reported other sites were not working via Downdetector, including Gmail and Twitter, the latter possibly caused by Facebook users reporting the outage.
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.
Google Buzz was announced on February 9, 2010, in a press conference at the company's Mountain View headquarters and launched on the same day, at 11 a.m. PT for the first set of users. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] The feature, available from the Gmail inbox, was rolled out to Gmail accounts in the following weeks.
And that's why Page and Brin decided to unveil something no one would believe was possible 20 years ago on April Fool's Day. It was Gmail, a free service boasting 1 gigabyte of storage per account ...
A Google spokesperson stated to the media on August 15, 2013, that the corporation takes the privacy and security concerns of Gmail users "very seriously." [39] A Federal Judge declined to dissolve a lawsuit made by Gmail users who opposed to the use of analyzing the content of the messenger by selling byproducts. [40]
In 2021, the Alphabet Workers Union was founded, composed mostly of Google employees. [122] In January 2021, the Australian Government proposed legislation that would require Google and Facebook to pay media companies for the right to use their content. In response, Google threatened to close off access to its search engine in Australia.