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Bloomberg
Services from Alphabet Inc.’s Google experienced widespread outages around the world, temporarily preventing people from accessing Gmail, YouTube and other products.
Errors ranged from a notice that “something went wrong†on YouTube, to “there was an error. Please try again later,†when attempting to log into the company’s mail product in New York. Google tools were failing to load for users in the US, the UK and across Europe, but began functioning again for many
people after about an hour.
Google confirmed there was an outage for the majority of its services on a Workspace Status Dashboard, which monitors the health of its products, but said functionality was restored to the “vast majority†of users.
The service disruption came from a technical flaw in services that require users to log in to
online accounts.
The company said it was not caused by a cyber-attack.