Google died at the weekend. Well, google.com did anyway, as did co.uk, .fr, and seemingly all the other regional variants of the world’s most popular search engine. The site was down for less than an hour for most users, but was still sorely missed for the short period of time it was offline.
Google’s blaming a DNS problem for its sudden disappearance of the web. But what happens when such a site goes down – something so many web users have come to rely on? Not only Google was affected; Gmail, its free webmail service, disappeared off the face of the net at the same time. Users who had bookmarked the IP address for the site were still able to access it – but for everyone else, there was no Google. Yahoo!, once again, became the search engine of choice for many – after, of course, they tried to use Google to find out what was wrong with, erm, Google.
Source: Neowin
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