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RIGHT NOW: Google is down - also YouTube, Gmail, Google Photos, etc are all down

Written by Petteri Pyyny @ 14 Dec 2020 7:08 User comments (1)

RIGHT NOW: Google is down - also YouTube, Gmail, Google Photos, etc are all down Just few minutes ago all major Google services went crashing down.
Social media is being flooded with reports from users who cannot access Google search, YouTube, Gmail or Google Photos.

You can see the situation in DownDetector and other similar sites monitoring web services' health.

Here's how YouTube looks like right now:

YouTube down


And here's how Google search looks like:

Google down


Current monitoring status for Google Drive:



Google monitoring / health status

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114.12.2020 11:01

Weird. Are we blaming this on 2020, Covid or is there perhaps another reason ?

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