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Google sites suffering outage, timing out

I am doing my Sunday morning surfing and Google is inaccessible. I am on my Covad T-1 and other sites are showing speedily but Google Search and Google Reader are timing out.
Written by Dan Farber, Inactive

I am doing my Sunday morning surfing and Google is inaccessible. I am on my Covad T-1 and other sites are showing speedily but Google Search and Google Reader are timing out. In this situation, how does Google communicate with the hundreds of millions of users or whatever segment is affected to let them know what is going on? At least we have alternatives. Time to fire up Yahoo and Ask. This kind of outage brings up the challenges, even for all the smart people at Google, in managing their service and reputation.

Update: Google is back up again, after at least 10 minutes of going dark on me. As I have said many times before, the services that billions or millions of people depend on need to have a site on infrastructure with at least 99.999 uptime that gives a status report of what is going on and when service is expected to return.

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