Google has a worldwide meltdown

12 September 2017 - 21:27

By Timeslive

Image: STEPHEN LAM A Google logo is seen at the garage where the company was founded on Google's 15th anniversary in Menlo Park, California. File photo.

Google has gone down in a number of countries around the world.

The world’s largest search engine, which offers Gmail e-mail service, the video hosting platform Youtube, Google maps, Google Talk and the Google+ social network, appears to have shut down at around 4PM BST, Tuesday.

According to Downdetector and Outage.Report, Google was experiencing serious issues in parts of the UK, France, North America and Japan.

Outage map shows the areas most effected by the Google outage on Tuesday.

Gmail is having issues since 11:22 AM ESThttps://t.co/77UjLrfO4o
RT if you're also affected #gmaildown pic.twitter.com/WAo9zeGhDX
— Outage Report (@ReportOutage) September 12, 2017

YouTube is having issues since 11:18 AM ESThttps://t.co/Y2dMzKpSuF
RT if you're also affected #youtubedown pic.twitter.com/TwGdcrGcNe
— Outage Report (@ReportOutage) September 12, 2017

Google Maps is having issues since 11:15 AM ESThttps://t.co/4GfGTp0ijI
RT if you're also affected #googlemapsdown pic.twitter.com/MdD4N3Kedg
— Outage Report (@ReportOutage) September 12, 2017

Meanwhile, #googledown started trending as thousands of worldwide users took to social media to express their frustration.

What caused the outage is still unknown.

I asked Google if Google was down and Google said "No". #googledown pic.twitter.com/P5ouWkCC3o
— Calvin Prasad (@cal2go) September 12, 2017

I'd hate to be the guy at @Google who accidentally pressed the wrong button today. #googledown #baddayatwork pic.twitter.com/r2UK97ksol
— ZigZag Digital (@zigzag_digital) September 12, 2017

#googledown pic.twitter.com/ZK7LCg0UNf
— Romain Legresy (@RomainLegresy) September 12, 2017