Clients using the Alphabet Inc. services have experienced a Worldwide outage barring access to Gmail, YouTube and other products. – By Gerald Gekara.
The incident was first reported at 7.am by the website DownDetector, which collates user-reported errors on websites, mobile networks and other platforms, was showing tens of thousands of complaints around 07:00 a.m. in New York, extending to Google’s office tools such as Drive and Meet, Google Maps, and Google’s smart home products such as Nest.
Errors such as “something went wrong” on YouTube, to “there was an error. Please Try again later. That’s all we know,” popped up when attempting to login to the company’s mail product.
The company’s search product however remanied active.
Communicating the outage, YouTube tweeted,
“We are aware that many of you are having issues accessing YouTube right now – our team is aware and looking into it. We’ll update you here as soon as we have more news.”