Google Outages May 14

May 14, 2009

For the first time since Google is alive have seen something like this. All Google services are down. Would really like to see opinion about Adwords advertisers, Adsense publishers, and millions of users using their services.

Google in my life, hmmmm let me count the ways;

Gmail – no e-mail as we are running Gmail through Thunderbird
Adwords – Good chunk of our online paid advertising dead in the water
Analytics – All pages on lots of sites hanging up when loading
A/B testing through analytics on some sites, that wasn’t helping
Google hosted javascript library file – using that on a new interface we were testing out

Wow was that a wake up call on how overly dependent we have become on them. I guess nothings really for free.

You can read the whole discussion in Webmasterworld, theregister, PcMag and Google apologies.

Lesson Learned, Nothing is 100% Nor the big G. Don’t know if this has something to do but today was the worst day in traffic in Googlelady.