Outside the Beltway

Life Without Google

· Wednesday, November 12, 2008 · 6 comments

At the moment, Google has gone dark.

Google Reader isn’t responding.  Nor is Gmail.  Or Google News.  Nor Google Search.  Or Google Calendar.

Life as we know it has pretty much ground to a stop.

UPDATE:  The Googleverse has been restored.  I estimate the outage at 20 minutes.

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Comments

  1. JDubbs's avatar JDubbs says:
    Wednesday, 12 November 2008 at 16:46

    Works OK now, so it didn’t last too long, but damn you scared me.

  2. Doug Mataconis's avatar Doug Mataconis says:
    Wednesday, 12 November 2008 at 16:53

    Hmmm, never even noticed it and I’ve been on Google Reader since 4:30

  3. James Joyner's avatar James Joyner says:
    Wednesday, 12 November 2008 at 16:56

    Hmmm, never even noticed it and I’ve been on Google Reader since 4:30

    You’re fine if you don’t close, I think, since it doesn’t auto-refresh unless you leave the frame and go back to the top.

  4. Jamie's avatar Jamie says:
    Wednesday, 12 November 2008 at 21:13

    I blame Obama.

  5. odograph's avatar odograph says:
    Wednesday, 12 November 2008 at 21:48

    I can’t get my google docs tonight.

  6. rodney dill's avatar rodney dill says:
    Thursday, 13 November 2008 at 08:01

    At least the whole internet wasn’t down.

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