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We have seen our fair share of failures from web based products, but this morning, for a large number of users (at least in the U.S.), it looks like every Google service has been either wiped off the Internet or is running extremely slow for a large number of users. Even Google Search is only creeping along slowly right now, and YouTube, Google Reader, Blogger, Google Analytics, Gmail, Google Maps, and Google Apps are pretty much unavailable as well.
Typically, these outages have never lasted for long, but once again, this outage shows how dependent we have become on Google for so many of our daily tasks.
Final Update (12:30pm PST): Google just released an official explanation for this morning's outage. According to Google, about 14% of its customers were affected by this morning's problems, which it attributes to an "error in one of our systems [that] caused us to direct some of our web traffic through Asia, which created a traffic jam."
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