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Comments on: Google News spotlights YouTube, suffers outage

Google News has begun emphasizing YouTube-hosted video reports embedding directly on the page. However, the news site suffered an outage Thursday.

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by miaminica May 14, 2009 7:59 AM PDT: I can't access any Google service like Gmail, Reader, News, Blogger (for blogs hosted there). Either Chrome nor IE8 can load any Google sites.; Like this Reply to this comment


by AgentScribe May 14, 2009 8:27 AM PDT: It's 11:26 a.m. Eastern and I still can't do anything Google, which is frustrating because I rely on it for personal and work concerns during my business day. I have tried Chrome (my default) and Firefox.; Like this Reply to this comment


by NCNSolutions May 14, 2009 8:31 AM PDT: I can't access any of Google Services either. It's been down for at least an hour now. Currently 11:30am EST; Like this Reply to this comment


by gatorm1ke May 14, 2009 8:39 AM PDT: I can't access Google News. Google Web takes a very long time to load and does not load the graphics, GMail won't load... looks like they snarled something up big-time.; Like this Reply to this comment


by jaylaw81 May 14, 2009 8:42 AM PDT: the status of google being back up is incorrect. major outages still occuring across google network; Like this Reply to this comment


by cnetbelmatic May 14, 2009 8:45 AM PDT: Me as well, no apps, or gmail, for about an hour now. Oddly enough Google Voice still works fine, which is great.; Like this Reply to this comment


by chuchucuhi May 14, 2009 8:48 AM PDT: Googles network has become self aware, this is the end....hehe; Like this Reply to this comment


by TripleRLtd May 14, 2009 8:52 AM PDT: West coast Florida is mostly down as well. GMail continues to time out or completely fail. Google search fails to load.
Yeah, they messed up big time. Time to update your story CNet...; Like this Reply to this comment


by darren_kopp May 14, 2009 9:01 AM PDT: ALL google services are down. blogspot, gmail, reader, search, youtube, etc. how is this ALL you have written cnet?; Like this Reply to this comment


by feedbacksol May 14, 2009 9:02 AM PDT: google, youtube and infowars , prison planet are down its 12 pm est.. WRONG REPORTING CNET; Like this Reply to this comment

by TripleRLtd May 14, 2009 9:36 AM PDT

Cnet has now updated the story and is asking for comments here:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10240875-93.html

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by ladysabeha May 14, 2009 10:16 AM PDT: That was scary! I was actually in the middle of the paying bit of an Ebay/Paypal transaction, when the outage happened. That did nothing for my confidence level.
Thanks for the heart attack, Google!; Like this


by wiseguy_in_PA May 14, 2009 11:18 AM PDT: Features seem to be added to Facebook as well. People using Twitter for status updates now have only their most recent posts visible, you have to click a link (view similar posts) to see the rest.; Like this Reply to this comment


by cnet-buff May 15, 2009 12:06 AM PDT: Diversify ... diversify ... diversify !!!

Try others like http://www.seekyoo.com

Then there is even a better one on the way !!!; Like this Reply to this comment


by belcorv May 15, 2009 6:31 AM PDT: Outage is happening again today (abt 9am). Same error message on all our computers. We're in North Central PA...; Like this Reply to this comment

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