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Ask HN: Is Google really slow right now? (or is it just for me?)
(or is it just for me?)
- noodle 17y agoits slow for me too. not just google.com, but google-related services. doubleclick ads, analytics, etc. edit: seems to be back up to full speed for me now.
- tocomment 17y agoOMG it's happening all over the world: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=&ands=google&phrase=&ors=¬s=&tag=&lang=all&from=&to=&ref=&near=&within=15&units=mi&since=2009-05-14&until=2009-05-14&rpp=50 http://search.twitter.com/search?q=&ands=google&phra...
- alexk7 17y agoTwitter tag in action: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23googlefail http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23googlefail
- pugio 17y agoSame here: ping google.com PING google.com (74.125.67.100): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 74.125.67.100: icmp_seq=34 ttl=40 time=330.224 ms .... ^C --- google.com ping statistics --- 247 packets transmitted, 14 packets received, 94% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 294.648/313.224/331.038/13.395 ms
- vito 17y agoYep, and half of the sites I'm trying to visit are affected as well, probably from Google Analytics or any of the other dozens of Google things everywhere.
- ulf 17y agoAnother proof that Google is steadily becoming the SPOF of the web...
- Notorious_PWN 17y agoI was having problems with AWS (very slow; too slow for development). I don't know if it was just Google.
- deleted 17y ago[deleted]
- TallGuyShort 17y agoThey've also been denying service to requests that "look automated" more often lately. I assume that's an automatic response to a DDoS - must be a growing problem for them.
- richardw 17y agoI've had a ton of these lately. I've read that some people using Google App Engine have had it on their apps, which seriously degrades the halo IMO.
- old-gregg 17y agoGoogle services has been steadily getting slower and slower for me. I can't recall the last time when google maps loaded the entire map successfully: 1-3 fragments are always missing. I also stopped using gmail and switched to Mail.app. Gmail completely deteriorated for me: too often I'd press "Send" and it would just sit there forever with "Still working..." on top.
- nikolayv 17y agoGMail has sucked for me in this and other ways too for months now, but right now everything seems fine (all Google services). Perhaps, I was a little late to the party.
- nikolayv 17y agoActually, this reminds me that the time seems ripe for the next big steps in browser-based E-mail, the next product that can take GMail's features like lots of storage and mostly search as a starting point. My conjecture is that lots of people are tired of GMail sucking and would give other web clients a shot. And it might take a while before good service returns to GMail (if ever) given the rumors about the hairy state of the code base. Anyone know of anything that I should take a look at?
- spkthed 17y agoOpenDNS was having issues resolving Google yesterday. It looks like at least part of the problem today is DNS related. Anyone else experiencing that?
- nanexcool 17y agoI read something about that and stopped using OpenDNS yesterday. I felt my speed improve, especially when opening Gmail. But you know, could be in my mind.
- amanfredi 17y agodisabling google analytics on our site for now.
- twism 17y agohmm.. maybe the reason I can't checkout anything from googlecode.
- csomar 17y agoit's fast (ok like usual) here in Tunisia
- chaosmachine 17y agoSeems fine for me. Maybe keyboardr got dugg or something: http://keyboardr.com/ http://keyboardr.com/
- szopa 17y agoHere in Europe (Poland) it's also very slow. I was convinced it was a problem with my ISP, but now it is getting scary.
- jonknee 17y agoScary? You must have a great life--on my list of scary things Google running slowly doesn't even register. They're having some latency issues and have no doubt dispatched people to work on it. Business as usual.
- szopa 17y agoScary is the fact of how dependent I am on this single company. They have my e-mails, they have my jabber account, they have some of my documents, they host the stats of my websites, people find my stuff using their search engine... Not to mention that my job becomes radically more difficult without the search (how am I supposed to find new libraries I need and documentation, hm?). I usually don't realize all this stuff until something goes wrong (eg. they have latency problems). When everything just works having Google feels as natural as having fresh air or fresh water... And yes, thank you, I have a great life :-)
- FooBarWidget 17y agoThe thing is, would you do better if you host all your stuff yourself? I know I wouldn't - so far Gmail has been down far less than my own mail server. Every now and then an update on my server breaks some stuff and I have to spend a few hours of my precious time fixing it. So far Google has saved me more time and hassle than when I host stuff myself, even with all the Google downtime.
- adolfoabegg 17y agogoogle sucks @spain too...
- adolfoabegg 17y agodo you yahoo now? :P
- adolfoabegg 17y agogoogle is up and running..
- bbuffone 17y agoEven site that have google ads are now effected. Just tried to do to Techcrunch.com and it is hung on the loading of doubleclick ads and pagesyndication. I also noticed for the last few days the formatting of my google search results are broken. The first result's title is off to the right after the ebay logo.
- slackerIII 17y agoMaybe Wolfram Alpha is fighting dirty :)
- chaosmachine 17y agos/is fighting dirty/has become sentient
- skorgu 17y ago/
- rue 17y agoIt would be more likely to be Google fighting dirty, casually reminding everyone who owns the Internet, and how it would be a shame if some kind of an accident were to happen to it, such a pretty Internet that it is.
- Notorious_PWN 17y agoYoutube is fucked right now.
- abyssknight 17y agoYes, yes it is. I thought it was the apocalypse or a really bad firewall rule.
- tocomment 17y agoIt's funny I needed to get directions, and I'm just realizing now that I can use Yahoo maps (an hour later). Update: Nevermind, Yahoo maps just erases the addresses I entered when I press "go". I guess I'm stuck waiting for google maps to come back. I refuse to revert to mapquest.
- yafujifide 17y agoThe tubes have a kink.
- szopa 17y agoFunny thing... I just realized that without Google I am kind of cut off from the world: no e-mail, no jabber... I do have some backup accounts, but the people with whom I'd like to communicate don't... Or at least I don't know their secondary addresses. It's scary. Well, at least I have HN to cheer me up :-)
- boredguy8 17y agoIt started yesterday for me, not today. Probably about 2:30 pacific time. I noticed some rather intense latency on loading gmail.
- ianbishop 17y agoAnyone remember that article about how (some ridiculously small amount of time) affected google and made them lose money?
- audionerd 17y ago[…] when Google compared search results pages with 10, 20, and 30 results per page, Mayer said the company found that putting 30 results on a page led to one-fifth fewer searches. Analyzing the data, she said that latency -- the subsecond delay caused by serving more results -- drove the decline. "Users really care about speed," Mayer said. "They really respond to speed." http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/google/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=208400949 http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/google/showArti...
- brown9-2 17y agoCouldn't the decline in "searches" also just be because more users were finding what they needed in the first page of results?
- sp332 17y agoI'm pretty sure they would have factored that in to the study. Google is very good at counting which link you clicked, and how long it took you to find it.
- liuliu 17y agoin China, slow. First I thought it may be the great firewall. But it seems far more worse than that..
- malte 17y agoIt seems like everything's back to normal now.
- tokenadult 17y agoNo problem for me any time this morning (United States Central Time Zone).
- Notorious_PWN 17y agoUPDATE @ 12:10-- AWS (which also seemed to be affected) up to normal speed. Youtube and Gmail slow but usable. Google seems to be a normal speed.
- skorgu 17y agoNot here (Going out through AT&T).
- szopa 17y agoUff... It is getting back to normal. We are all saved! ;-)
- TallGuyShort 17y agohttp://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=18064 http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=18064
- deleted 17y ago[deleted]
- chanux 17y agoThe Twitterverse is hot http://www.roomatic.com/%23googlefail http://www.roomatic.com/%23googlefail But nothings wrong from here.
- tsbardella 17y agonoticed it as well. back to normal
- mikecuesta 17y agoNo wonder, I was having all sorts of issues with Gmail this morning.
- heat_miser 17y agoGoogle was really broken for me about 30 mins ago, in San Mateo, but it seems to be back now
- quellhorst 17y agoLast night google searches were being returned to me without any CSS styling.
- axomhacker 17y agoGoogle says it's resolved. Updates coming soon: http://twitter.com/google/status/1796948425 http://twitter.com/google/status/1796948425
- TweedHeads 17y agoSince when HN is a "Google is down" alert system?
- _pius 17y agohttp://slowforeveryoneorjustme.o http://slowforeveryoneorjustme.o ... oh wait, no one's made that one yet.
- socratees 17y agoFor me, google search results appeared without the usual formatting (5/14/09 9PM CST) this was even before the Google glitch happened.
- socratees 17y agohttp://identi.ca/notice/4231184 http://identi.ca/notice/4231184