Google is down

25 points by joebeetee 7 years ago | 11 comments

ninetax 7 years ago |

Incredible that I've used Google all my life and it's taken until today for me to see an outage. A testament to the SREs at Google.

If anyone hasn't see the Google SRE book, I highly recommend it. https://landing.google.com/sre/books/

thinkingkong 7 years ago |

Seems to be back up.

I can't remember the last time it went down but I hope they're transparent about what happened. I'm sure we could all learn something about how to manage large globally distributed search engines of our own...

yread 7 years ago | |

People always say this, but how many HN readers are really running anything even close to the scale of google.com? And how many should worry about completely different things..

quico 7 years ago |

It's back up. It was down for about a minute here. Impressively quick fix.

JesseAldridge 7 years ago | |

It was down for about 3 minutes for me. Just long enough to change my default search engine to DuckDuckGo.

jhgg 7 years ago |

Tried to google “is google down”... oops.

MrCalifornian 7 years ago | |

I did too, and it said "No" but only returned one page of results (mostly books).

Finster 7 years ago |

Works on my machine

senectus1 7 years ago |

what does the phrase "google is down" even mean in this world?

I mean its the largest and most well spread internet service company in the world. "google" isn't just one service is a massive collection of services.

which part is down, in which area at which time and in which circumstance...?

It just seems like such an absurd phrase in this day and age.

tomschlick 7 years ago |

It's up for me.

mockindignant 7 years ago |

Working fine for me.