It’s amazing how much I’ve grown to rely on Google for information. See Google has control of many of the web sites I visit first thing in the morning, YouTube, Gmail, iGoogle, Google Reader and more.
Problem is though today none of them are loading. Well some are but it’s taking them an eternity and when they’ve finally loaded navigating is painfully slow.
A brief search of Twitter and I found several people experiencing the same thing.
So is there some sort of planned or unplanned Google service outage going on?
Here’s hoping everything comes back to normal soon.
UPDATE: Things seems to have come back on line at of 8:oo AM EST
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I’ve had a LOT of very slow Gmail access via the web ever since the first major Google outage. At least half a dozen times per day since I’ve received delays while sending or retrieving email (and this happens on both Mac and Windows web desktops).
Lex
I couldn’t get on from 7AM to 8AM Eastern time today either.
