Posted on 02/01/2007 3:27:44 PM PST by UnChained
Edited on 02/01/2007 3:38:53 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
WOW!
I don't think this has happened before.
It's pretty earthshaking.
Pocket-lint News
Google's US news service goes down
No access to the news service in the US
by Stuart Miles
1 February 2007 - Google's American news service news.google.com appeared to go down this afternoon presenting visitors to the site with nothing more than a 502 error.
A 502 error normally means that the server has been temporarily overloaded, but as Google run a cluster of computers this would seem that a number of their datacentres have gone offline leaving the ones left running overloaded with the extra traffic.
At the time of writing Google's website had been down around 30 minutes.
"What's surprising is that its happened to Google" a web developer told us. "You just don't expect Google to be inaccessible."
No word as yet whether is it in fact a technical hitch or a denial of service attack. However the UK News service seems to be working as normal.
We will keep you posted.
Works for me.
No, it's not.
Are you plugged in?
Worked for me just now. Are you logged in? :)
Really? When I typed WTF, I got plenty of returns.
check your wall socket
You mean your Noodle is down.
:)
It must be hiding from you...
Are you sure you're logged in?
Sounds series....
Working well for me, too.
Did you refresh?
Working fine.
End of the World, as we know it.
Hillary's fault?
It's working fine--I think you need to use a plunger on your intertubes. They're clogged.
}:-)4
It's nothing that a mild antidepressant won't fix, though...
Not on my computer, it isn't.
Yeah... and the sky is falling too.
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