The problem began with Google’s search engine. However, Google owns many an internet service and they too began to feel the effects with users of Gmail, Google News and Youtube complaining that they could not access the services.
Google claims the outage lasted for roughly an hour Thursday morning and says that the reason for the outages was that some traffic was mistakenly routed through Asia. In a sort of round about way using plan and flight route analogies, the company explains that roughly 14 percent of users were affected by last week’s technical problems.
Google went on to say that it was very sorry that the problem had occurred at all and that it was working to ensure that the problem didn’t reoccur. Anyone here feel the effects of what people are calling Googlefail? Let us know below!
Full statement from Google:"Imagine if you were trying to fly from New York to San Francisco, but your plane was routed through an airport in Asia. And a bunch of other planes were sent that way too, so your flight was backed up and your journey took much longer than expected. That's basically what happened to some of our users today for about an hour, starting at 7:48 am Pacific time.An error in one of our systems caused us to direct some of our web traffic through Asia, which created a traffic jam. As a result, about 14% of our users experienced slow services or even interruptions. We've been working hard to make our services ultrafast and "always on," so it's especially embarrassing when a glitch like this one happens. We're very sorry that it happened, and you can be sure that we'll be working even harder to make sure that a similar problem won't happen again. All planes are back on schedule now."
