Comments on: Widespread Google outages rattle users

CNET readers and Twitter users are reporting problems with many Google services, notably search. Google says it fixed the problem and acknowledged responsibility.

[jmugatu]

The Google Dashboard doesn't seem to reveal too many problems : http://www.google.com/appsstatus#

[Dalene29]

Could this have anything to do with the cybersecurity bills S773 and S778 that give government control of the internet?

[gene_seomachine]

First: Some of the sites that were crawled last night when Google had it's "glitch" actually lost their organic positioning. That drop might be the cause of the Google fail, but might not be as well, however Google will probably never admit to this anyway. (Matt, would you like to add to this comment?)

Second: My comment is mainly for the author of this article: Stephen, I think that you could have summarized all the US States that you've listed as simply USA and continue on to mention other countries. Otherwise it seemed a bit strange to me that you are saying "all over the world" and listing parts of the country we live in. Was there a need to have more content than there was originally and that's why you decided to add a few more words to this PR?
Also the Twitter feed you referred from Tadiera seemed a little awkward don't you think? Can you really agree with the statement you used that: "The Internet dies without Google." ?
Oh, no what are we going to do if Google dies? What were we doing all these years before Google was born?
Stephen, I like that you are staying on top of this story and I look forward to future updates.

[archivalbackup]

I actually was debugging and caught the problem ... I have started a discussion via the link below.

Basically an ISP (NTT.net) injected a bad BGP route into the internet and broke everything. Hopefully more analysis soon:

http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?p=1034101786#post1034101786

[Georgia in MS]

So, if someone can inject a bad BGP route (or anything) into the internet and break everything.... What stops someone from "breaking" the internet?? Why have viruses if you can do that?

[T-Guy]

Interesting... In mid-Atlantic and only Google News was down for me. Everything else I was using (search, docs, maps) were fine.

[dfly]

I get a 'URl is too large' message when trying to get into gmail.

[dfly]

no gmail for me in prescott, az, usa.

[dmoto8]

gmail, google search, and google.com inaccessible until about 11:30 AM CST in AL- they were down here for about 1.5 hours

[lizardo_manson]

I use google and gmail a lot and didn't noticed any problem, everything was working 100% now and before.

[uglo]

People need to diversify. You wouldn't but all your eggs (money) in one basket - then don't do all your work on line using just one service. It's common sense to me.

[wiseguy_in_PA]

Gmail failed in central Pennsylvania, Facebook very slow. Not all features operating (like chat)

[Michael00360]

East Coast, NC Suddenlink High Speed Internet. As of this post, it works for me.

14:46 EST

[macatma]

I live near Boston, Massachusetts and had serious problems with my internet service this morning. My ISP is Verizon, with whom I have endured periodic outages in the past, but it did not appear to be on Verizon's end this time. I thought it might be Mozilla Firefox, too, because since I upgraded to their newest browser three weeks ago, Firefox has crashed a dozen times or more. Never happened before the upgrade.
So, I used Explorer (which I hate to do because of the "bloat") and had the same connection problems I was having with Firefox. So, it was Google, after all! I never would have guessed that without learning the news from CNet. Thanks dudes.

[Shankland]

It's interesting to me that people are inclined to blame other problems besides Google. I had another person who was rebooting his laptop to try to figure out what was wrong. Today's problem is bad for Google, but it also illustrates just how reliable people expect it to be despite very heavy use.

[gcpowers]

gmail out fir 6hrs now..florida,,

[k9jdk]

No offense, but how much does one pay for g-this and g-that? Its pretty much available always, which is a quite a bargain for the price.

A GOOFLE?

[triniboy23]

Just goes to show.. do we control the internet.. or is it the other way around??

Gmail, Adsense, youtube,blogger... all down.. what i'm I to do at work??.. Well there's always facebook..hhmm..

Are we..going down a slippery slope??

Your feedback is welcomed.. http://mageesbailoutblog.blogspot.com/

[Brent212]

I thought it was my work network. My phone was accessing google and gmail fine, but I couldn't get either from my computer until around 9am.

[opinionated_jerk]

Down again at 8:45 EST

[rjwinslow]

It seems news.google.com is out again this morning (~9AM ET) in NJ