Google News stumbles again
World stops happening for 15 whole minutes
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Google's news aggregation and search site had another little lie down yesterday, for the second time this week.
On Monday afternoon the news page was briefly unavailable from the UK and it went down for another 15 minutes yesterday. Google UK did not comment on Monday's problems.
But Computerworld had more luck - Google said a small percentage of users got a 503 server error and apologised.
Last week Google suffered a far more serious outage, which meant users around the world lost access to most of Google's applications, including Gmail, maps, Google Docs and AdSense.
Some services were still available but were unbearably slow. Google said a traffic routing problem caused the blip.
The annoyance caused to the average user shows how far the search company has inveigled its way into our working lives. For companies dependent on Google Apps, the outage was more than just annoying, of course. ®
COMMENTS
.. nothing new
If anyone here has read the gmail/google "help" (loose-term alert) pages/forum, they would know there are frequent outages and bugs.. even my trash folder thats supposed to be emptied every xx days had items over a year old in there - when I posted about it, got dismissed, then proved it, it was suddenly fixed!
Point is Ive read and experienced many google app failures and they just dont seem to have a good resilience and continuity in-place...
Google are great app builders, but only ok infrastructure designers = don't depend on them (I have my personal mail split between 2 yahoo and 1 gmail accounts)
Paris - 'cos she knows how to keep going when the going gets tough
AC@ Companies reliant on google apps...
Surely MS-office 2010 will have a google back-up reader built in, to give it a unique selling point?
Otherwise, some open-source do-gooder will develop a utility to copy everything you change in a googleapp onto your local drive as a back-up.
I would have posted something
but I've been blocking Google cookies for so long now that I have died of swine flu.
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