Google goes dark for 2 minutes, kills 40% of world's net traffic [View all]

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The event began at approximately 4:37pm Pacific Time and lasted between one and five minutes, according to the Google Apps Dashboard. All of the Google Apps services reported being back online by 4:48pm.

The incident apparently blacked out every service Mountain View has to offer simultaneously, from Google Search to Gmail, YouTube, Google Drive, and beyond.

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According to web analytics firm GoSquared, worldwide internet traffic dipped by a stunning 40 per cent during the brief minutes that the Chocolate Factory's services were offline. Here's the graph of what that looked like:

They may be turning into "just another company" (like Apple is still a paragon of creativity, snort) - but just holy crap. That's a lot of the intertubes.

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