Google Goes Down

SpinnerSpinner Birmingham, UK
edited May 2005 in Science & Tech
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

Comments

  • D00D
    edited May 2005
    This is a ...actually it's a nice relief for every once and a while. Let's all shut down all the power in thw world for 1 day in 2006! ...The global effort at saving the planet and taking a break from technology!
  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited May 2005
    D00D (Guest) wrote:
    This is a ...actually it's a nice relief for every once and a while. Let's all shut down all the power in thw world for 1 day in 2006! ...The global effort at saving the planet and taking a break from technology!

    Except for those people on life support/etc, sounds like a plan to me :P
  • madmatmadmat
    edited May 2005
    When I read the title the honest first thing I thought of was "well looks like all that pr0n rubbed off"
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