Google is down (opens in new tab)

(google.com)

25 pointsjoebeetee7y ago11 comments

11 comments

Incredible that I've used Google all my life and it's taken until today for me to see an outage. A testament to the SREs at Google.

If anyone hasn't see the Google SRE book, I highly recommend it. https://landing.google.com/sre/books/

thinkingkong7y ago

Seems to be back up.

I can't remember the last time it went down but I hope they're transparent about what happened. I'm sure we could all learn something about how to manage large globally distributed search engines of our own...

yread7y ago

People always say this, but how many HN readers are really running anything even close to the scale of google.com? And how many should worry about completely different things..

quico7y ago

It's back up. It was down for about a minute here. Impressively quick fix.

JesseAldridge7y ago

It was down for about 3 minutes for me. Just long enough to change my default search engine to DuckDuckGo.

jhgg7y ago

Tried to google “is google down”... oops.

MrCalifornian7y ago

I did too, and it said "No" but only returned one page of results (mostly books).

Finster7y ago

Works on my machine

senectus17y ago

what does the phrase "google is down" even mean in this world?

I mean its the largest and most well spread internet service company in the world. "google" isn't just one service is a massive collection of services.

which part is down, in which area at which time and in which circumstance...?

It just seems like such an absurd phrase in this day and age.

tomschlick7y ago

It's up for me.

mockindignant7y ago

Working fine for me.

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