Online outages, outrage and ordeals - washingtonpost.com
May 24, 2009
By the standards of most power outages, Google's little hiccup last Thursday was nothing special. Most users of Google's sites and services didn't even notice, and those who did regained access in a couple of hours.
But to people who rely on Google for their e-mail, their calendars and their documents, seeing them suddenly drop offline must have felt as if somebody had carved a chunk out of the Internet...
By the standards of most power outages, Google's little hiccup last Thursday was nothing special. Most users of Google's sites and services didn't even notice, and those who did regained access in a couple of hours.
But to people who rely on Google for their e-mail, their calendars and their documents, seeing them suddenly drop offline must have felt as if somebody had carved a chunk out of the Internet...
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