Google Search, Maps, Photos, YouTube Recover Following Outages in Some Parts of the World

Multiple Twitter users are reporting an outage that affects several Google services including the company’s iconic search engine. Google Maps, Google Photos, Google Drive, Google Duo, GMail, and YouTube are some of the other services that users are reportedly experiencing difficulty accessing this morning, according to Downdetector. The issues began at around 6:37am IST when reports of problems began to rise above the baseline and by 7:07am there were over 41,000 such complaints. The affected services started returning to normal by 7:22am but issues seem to have persisted for some users till at least this time, according to the outage tracker. No cause for the disruption has yet been established.

Google is down ???? How am I supposed to watch my shows & simultaneously look up information about the casts & random things that pop in my head while watching?! pic.twitter.com/DkNvdFZ6Fu

— Emile Ennis Jr. (@EmileEnnisJr) August 9, 2022

Is the world ending? Google down. Google down! pic.twitter.com/CEBQooOULv

— Melissa Richards (@melissarichards) August 9, 2022

On Twitter, user reactions ranged from amused to surprised, with several users remarking that they had never seen Google Search go down before. Outages were reported anecdotally from across the United States, Australia, and India. Several users posted screenshots showing messages about an internal server error rather than their expected search results.