Google Suffers Another Service Outage

By Ian Paul, May 18, 2009

Google dealt with another service outage Monday that impacted users around the world. Today's service outage, which began at approximately 8:30 a.m. EDT, appears to have affected only Google's popular Google News service. As of this writing (9:44 a.m. EDT) the service outage had not been fully resolved. People have reported that when trying to access Google News they were met with a "503 Server Error" message and "Please try again in 30 seconds." Others could access Google News, but the site was not displaying pages correctly, or when links to other Google News categories were clicked, more "Server Error" messages appeared. (UPDATE: Access to Google News appears to be restored (9:50 a.m. EDT). Users are reporting that the service interruption to Google News, which lasted approximately 1.5 hours, is over.)

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