Google outage: YouTube, Docs and Gmail knocked offline

Google applications suffer rare outage, with users unable to access services.

In Summary

•Many individuals and businesses rely on Google services for basic work apps such as email and calendars.

•Despite the widespread outage, Google's service dashboard for its services reported no errors.

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Google applications including YouTube, Gmail and Docs suffer rare outage, with users unable to access services

The outage started shortly before noon UK time, with Google sites returning server errors when visited.

Users around the world reported problems with Gmail, Google Drive, the Android Play Store, Maps, and more.

Many individuals and businesses rely on Google services for basic work apps such as email and calendars.

Despite the widespread outage, Google's service dashboard for its services reported no errors.

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