Google outage darkens 40% of internet traffic
Posted by: Jon Ben-Mayor on 08/19/2013 06:31 AM
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Google suffered a major outage that struck all of its services from Google Search to Gmail to YouTube to Google Drive; the outage lasted from between one and five minutes last night, Google is being tight lipped about the cause.
The reason for the outage is not yet known, and Google refused to provide any further information when contacted by Sky News Online.
According to web analytics firm GoSquared, global internet traffic fell by around 40% during the black-out, reflecting Google's massive grip on the web.
"That’s huge," said GoSquared developer Simon Tabor. "As internet users, our reliance on Google.com being up is huge.
"It’s also of note that page views spiked shortly afterwards, as users managed to get to their destination."
A message on the Google Apps Dashboard showed all of its services were hit.
A later message said: "Between 15:51 and 15:52 PDT, 50% to 70% of requests to Google received errors; service was mostly restored one minute later, and entirely restored after four minutes."
Digital expert Phil Dearson, head of strategy for Tribal Worldwide, said the black-out had cost Google an estimated $500,000 (£330,000) just in the few minutes it was down.
Neil McAllister, a writer for website The Register, said: "Exactly how an operation like Google's can even go dark like that, all at once, is anybody's guess.
The reason for the outage is not yet known, and Google refused to provide any further information when contacted by Sky News Online.According to web analytics firm GoSquared, global internet traffic fell by around 40% during the black-out, reflecting Google's massive grip on the web.
"That’s huge," said GoSquared developer Simon Tabor. "As internet users, our reliance on Google.com being up is huge.
"It’s also of note that page views spiked shortly afterwards, as users managed to get to their destination."
A message on the Google Apps Dashboard showed all of its services were hit.
A later message said: "Between 15:51 and 15:52 PDT, 50% to 70% of requests to Google received errors; service was mostly restored one minute later, and entirely restored after four minutes."
Digital expert Phil Dearson, head of strategy for Tribal Worldwide, said the black-out had cost Google an estimated $500,000 (£330,000) just in the few minutes it was down.
Neil McAllister, a writer for website The Register, said: "Exactly how an operation like Google's can even go dark like that, all at once, is anybody's guess.
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