Google services have taken a hit as many users have taken up the issue on Twitter. Prominent services such as YouTube, Gmail and other Google platforms have stopped working for many users. There is no clarity regarding the same from Google.
Several users took to social media on Monday afternoon around 5.30 pm to share that Google’s webpages were redirecting to an error page. According to the Down Detector, issues at Google began around 5 pm. The outage was reported by users across the globe. Some users said that Google Pay wasn’t working either.
Users said on social media that a 500 error was displayed when they tried to search for something on Google. “there was an error. Please try again later. That’s all we know” was a message that many got.
YouTube displayed a ‘Something went wrong…’ error on its homepage, while Gmail displayed ‘Oops… the system encountered a problem (#2014)’. Google Drive and its apps such as Docs, Sheets etc weren’t working either, the page displayed the message, ‘Google Docs encountered an error. Please try reloading this page or coming back to it in a few minutes.’
