Google is now up and running in the US after a short outage: full details here
Google services in the United States were restored after a brief outage late Tuesday. The outage, which mainly affected Google search results in the Americas, was quickly resolved, Reuters reported.
“There was a very brief issue affecting the availability of some search results, limited to the Americas region, which was quickly fixed,” a spokesperson emailed Reuters, without disclosing details of the outage.
At its peak, more than 22,000 users reported being affected, according to Downdetector.com. A website that tracks outages by aggregating status reports from various sources, including user-submitted errors.
Downdetector’s data also revealed that around 87 percent of affected users had issues with Google search. By 22:21 ET (02:21 GMT), the number of reported outages had dropped to 324.
Recently, Netflix users experienced issues with the streaming platform on Sunday night. More than 11,000 users reported experiencing streaming issues on the platform.
The outage primarily affected services in the US, but users in other countries such as the UK and India also reported problems.
The timing of the outage was particularly unfortunate as it occurred during a planned live event for a reunion of the popular ‘Love is Blind’ series. The streaming giant acknowledged the problem and promised to fix the problem.
Netflix took to microblogging platform Twitter and wrote: “To everyone who stayed up late, woke up early, gave up their Sunday afternoon… We are very sorry that the Love is Blind Live Reunion did not go as planned. We are filming it now and will get it on Netflix as soon as humanly possible possible. Once again, thank you and sorry.”
Similarly, the Apple TV platform experienced a major outage late Saturday in the US, causing inconvenience to thousands of users in the country.
About 6,000 users reported difficulty accessing the popular streaming service The outage appeared to affect several Apple services, and users also reported issues with Apple support and iCloud. It is still unclear what caused the widespread disruption.
(via Reuters feeds)
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