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Google sites are probably the most reliable, I don't think I've ever seen google / gmail / yt going down.

by Thaxll 8y ago

djsumdog 8y ago
I think a Google search outage would be a spectacular train wreck. Imagine if Google's search was compromised in such a way as to be has bad as the Sony PSN network hack of ..2011? Imagine not having Google search for several weeks. Bing/DuckDuckGo/Yahoo would struggle just to keep up and people would immediately realize their dependence on the big G.
- lawl 8y ago
  > I think a Google search outage would be a spectacular train wreck. I'd argue that a youtube outage is worse. If google search is out, you can just use duckduckgo. If you want to watch a video on youtube, you're SOL. This is speaking from experience with blacklisting both google.com and youtube.com in my hosts file. I was doing fine with blacklisting google, but couldn't handle blacklisting youtube. Try it yourself if you don't believe me.
  - qwertay 8y ago
    Youtube is mostly idle entertainment though so an hour of no youtube is not the end of the world but people rely on search engines to get stuff done.
trumped 8y ago
I have seen gmail go down many times years ago but I haven't used the web interface for years so I don't know how often it happens nowadays...
herpderperator 8y ago
It depends how you define "going down." Here's an old screenshot of mine of when Google Search failed spectacularly by marking every single link as malicious and therefore not taking the user to that site when you click the link [1] [2]. Perhaps that might qualify as going down, although clearly it didn't go down at the network level. It remained broken (in that way) for quite some time (maybe longer than an hour.) But, happening in 2009, I can't accurately recall. Here is another scenario when Google Search failed to successfully serve my query [3]. And an early time when YouTube went down [4]. [1] https://i.imgur.com/X05BCpI.png https://i.imgur.com/X05BCpI.png [2] https://i.imgur.com/CaDh1Y6.png https://i.imgur.com/CaDh1Y6.png [3] https://i.imgur.com/VZI4Yew.png https://i.imgur.com/VZI4Yew.png [4] https://i.imgur.com/bPTp4bg.png https://i.imgur.com/bPTp4bg.png

Google sites are probably the most reliable, I don't think I've ever seen google / gmail / yt going down.

by Thaxll 8y ago

Google sites are probably the most reliable, I don't think I've ever seen google / gmail / yt going down.

I think a Google search outage would be a spectacular train wreck. Imagine if Google's search was compromised in such a way as to be has bad as the Sony PSN network hack of ..2011? Imagine not having Google search for several weeks. Bing/DuckDuckGo/Yahoo would struggle just to keep up and people would immediately realize their dependence on the big G.

lawl 8y ago
> I think a Google search outage would be a spectacular train wreck. I'd argue that a youtube outage is worse. If google search is out, you can just use duckduckgo. If you want to watch a video on youtube, you're SOL. This is speaking from experience with blacklisting both google.com and youtube.com in my hosts file. I was doing fine with blacklisting google, but couldn't handle blacklisting youtube. Try it yourself if you don't believe me.
- qwertay 8y ago
  Youtube is mostly idle entertainment though so an hour of no youtube is not the end of the world but people rely on search engines to get stuff done.

trumped 8y ago

I have seen gmail go down many times years ago but I haven't used the web interface for years so I don't know how often it happens nowadays...

herpderperator 8y ago

It depends how you define "going down." Here's an old screenshot of mine of when Google Search failed spectacularly by marking every single link as malicious and therefore not taking the user to that site when you click the link [1] [2]. Perhaps that might qualify as going down, although clearly it didn't go down at the network level. It remained broken (in that way) for quite some time (maybe longer than an hour.) But, happening in 2009, I can't accurately recall. Here is another scenario when Google Search failed to successfully serve my query [3]. And an early time when YouTube went down [4]. [1] https://i.imgur.com/X05BCpI.png https://i.imgur.com/X05BCpI.png [2] https://i.imgur.com/CaDh1Y6.png https://i.imgur.com/CaDh1Y6.png [3] https://i.imgur.com/VZI4Yew.png https://i.imgur.com/VZI4Yew.png [4] https://i.imgur.com/bPTp4bg.png https://i.imgur.com/bPTp4bg.png