Google goes down for 5 minutes, web traffic takes a dive

Google’s services, including the popular Google Search,                                   suffered a rare outage on early Saturday morning.

NEW DELHI: Google's services, including the popular Google search, suffered a rare court early Saturday morning. The blackout was observed IST to 04.20 clock and lasted about 5 minutes. All Google services were interrupted. If a user tries to access Gmail or Google search, the browser returns 502 error.

 



During the interruption lasted a few minutes, caused a flurry of tweets on Twitter."I wonder how many people checked their wifi before realizing that it was Google that was down," said one Twitter user.About an hour later, said GoSquared, web analytics company that he noticed a 40% drop in page views."Google.com was for a couple of minutes from 23.52 bis 23.57 clock GMT on August 16, 2013 This had come a tremendous impact on the number of visitors, the real-time tracking GoSquared -. Around 40% fall, as this graph of our global pageviews minute program, "said GoSquared. "This is huge. As an Internet user, our dependence on google.com is up is huge."Board of Google services that had monitoring and shows the status of the services Google a pink dot in front of each, indicating that they are. Except the series for the duration By clicking on each point, revealed a general message to confirm the interruption.For example, in Gmail tab, said: "We are aware of Gmail access problems with Gmail, which can have a significant subset of users affected users, but error messages and / or other unexpected behavior are there leave .. an update 08 / 17/13 06.07 detailing when we expect to resolve the problem. Please note that the date is an estimate and may change. incident lasted 1-5 minutes. "About ten minutes after the break was reported, Google engineers added to the scorecard that all problems had been resolved and services are running fine.