Is google down?

effowe

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Nov 1, 2004
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It was weird, yesterday google went down for me as well in Chicago. I thought it was because I was at work, but when I got home I still couldn't reach it. My email client couldn't connect to their pop servers either. The outage lasted about 4-6 hours. Maybe they are doing regional upgrades or something.
 

MDE

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No. Google is never broken. Ever. There was that one time though, but other than that Google is invulnerable and will never go away.
 

Canai

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There have been some DDoS attacks against several different Chicago server farms recently. Nuclear Fallout went down the other day (CS:S, DOD:S, and TF2 all pinging > 300), and our vent server got hit too. These attacks have been going on for a few weeks now, so it could be related.
 

Miramonti

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I believe their servers are down because Google filed for bankruptcy late friday afternoon, which is also probably why their stock went from nearly $600 in the morning to roughly 38¢ in extended hours trading. :p