Google: 'We're Very Sorry'

Forbes.com (May 14 2009)

1. If to err is human, Google may be mortal after all. The Internet giant, which saw its services slow to a crawl or temporarily stop Thursday, said an error in one of its systems routed its traffic through Asia, which overloaded servers, slowed their response time or took them out all together. Google ( GOOG - news - people ), which operates more than 30 data centers worldwide, has only three data centers in Asia. Google isn't yet calling it a service "outage." Instead, on its Apps Status page, the company suggests it was "a problem with Google Mail affecting a small subset of users." A footnote acknowledges that the problem may also be affecting other services, which seems to be the case. Google AdSense, Analytics, Docs, Maps and other services were all reported to be down at one point or another. (Read Full Article)

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