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Google Search Outage Hits Users as Reports Spike to About 10,000

Early tallies show widespread failures with no company comment.

Overview

  • Outage reports on Downdetector began around 11 p.m. EDT and climbed to nearly 10,000 by 11:10 p.m.
  • About 45% of complaints cited Search problems, 38% reported content not loading, and 12% said they could not access the site.
  • Reports concentrated in major U.S. cities including San Francisco, New York, Washington, Atlanta, Los Angeles, and Chicago, with scattered cases elsewhere.
  • Users shared blank result pages, long load times, and “internal server error” messages after submitting queries.
  • Google had not issued a statement or identified a cause or fix timeline at the time of the reports.