In a huge outage for the tech giant, Google services like Gmail, YouTube, Google Drive, Google Docs, Maps, Adwords and Adsense, Google Pay, Google Home, Nest and Google’s Chromecast abruptly went down on Monday evening, impacting various customers from across the globe.
Gmail customers discovered themselves getting greeted with a “Temporary Error” message.
It stated: “We’re sorry, but your account is temporarily unavailable. We apologise for the inconvenience and suggest trying again in a few minutes.
Google acknowledged the issue with Gmail at 5:25 PM on this day and had sorted the issue out by 6:22 PM in the evening, when it said that the problem was fixed for the “vast majority” of users.
The status page for Google’s services posted a notice of acknowledgement, which stated that “program reliability is a top rated priority at Google” and that the company is “generating continuous improvements” to make the system better.
“The difficulty with Gmail must be resolved for the vast majority of impacted customers. We will continue to work towards restoring service for the remaining impacted customers, but no additional updates will be offered on the Google Workspace Status Dashboard. Please rest assured that program reliability is a top rated priority at Google, and we are generating continuous improvements to make our systems improved,” the notice, posted at 6:22 PM on the status web page, study.