June 15th, 8:21 AM EST - Google.com down for 2 minutes strait

June 15, 2008

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FYI: I was surprised Google.com was down for 2 whole minutes this morning. It wasn't my connection, as I tried other sites and all loaded without delay. I don't recall this happening to me in the past nor others mentioning it.

I did see though that Adsense adds were loading on the sites I checked while waiting for Google.com to respond. I assume adsense ads are served up from another server (Google has 24 servers, or more, just for search); so their whole network was not down

elvis

06.15.2008

Apparently other Google services are being affected too. Google Syndication domain is slowing up load times on high traffic sites. Very interesting problem Google has on their hands.

Doing some search on Yahoo, hehehe, it seems Google has had quite a few problems this year with their products being down.

My Mom used to tell me, the bigger they are the harder they fall, to encourage me when prompted by a bully. In this case Google is having some serious problems which will cause many many sites to lag or stop working.

My advice to webmasters, turn off your Google related services so your site will load like it should.