Google Outage: YouTube, Gmail Reported Down in Multiple Countries
Service disruptions affected over 30,000 Gmail and 70,000 YouTube users within an hour due to server-side errors, amid ongoing legal and regulatory pressures on Alphabet Inc.
- Some Google services, including YouTube, temporarily went down on September 4 in Turkey and parts of Europe, starting at 10:00 a.m. local time, as reported by Turkish Deputy Minister Omer Fatih Sayan and the Freedom of Expression Association.
- Turkey's cyber security watchdog has requested a technical report from Google to investigate the outage, according to Deputy Minister Omer Fatih Sayan.
- Outages affected services like Gmail and Google Drive, with common errors including '5xx server error,' reported by users and monitoring platforms.
- Authorities are monitoring the situation and advising users to consider alternative tools until service restoration is confirmed.
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Google Services Crash: Gmail, YouTube, Maps Reportedly Experience Major Outages Across Eastern Europe, US Cities - Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG), Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL)
Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) (NASDAQ:GOOG) experienced widespread service disruptions on Thursday morning, affecting core platforms including Gmail, YouTube and Google Maps across Eastern Europe and major U.S. cities including New York and Chicago, according to DownDetector tracking data. Service Impact Scale Raises Investor Concerns Reports began flooding social media platforms around 10 a.m. local time (3 a.m. ET) from users in Bulgaria, Turke…
Google and YouTube are currently not accessible in certain regions. German users were also apparently briefly affected.
People around the world reported having problems with Google's services, according to Downgetector's data, which tracks the performance of websites and services.
Widespread Google Outage Disrupts Services Across Europe
Google services, including YouTube, faced temporary disruptions on Thursday in Turkey and parts of Europe such as Greece and Germany. The Freedom of Expression Association noted the outage began at 10:00 a.m. in Turkey. Services were largely restored by 9:00 a.m. GMT. Turkey's cyber security body has requested a technical report from Google.
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