Reason behind G-Mail, drive, youtube suffers a global outage.
                     REASON BEHIND GMAIL, DRIVE, 
YOUTUBE SUFFERS A GLOBAL 
OUTAGE
INTRODUCTION
 On Monday, Alphabet's Google experienced a global 
blackout that took many sites offline, including 
YouTube, Gmail and Google Drive. 
Source: www.cnbc.com
WHAT HAPPENED?
 The service, according to Google, has since been 
reinstated. The Workspace Status Dashboard of the 
company indicates that all of its facilities are now back 
up and running as usual. 
Source: www.cnbc.com
COMPLAINS FROM ALL OVER 
WORLD
 There have been concerns from around the world over 
the collapse of Google's services. Starting at about 5:00 
PM IST, applications such as Gmail, YouTube, Drive, 
Charts, among others have lost features.
Source: www.httech.com
ERROR MESSAGES 
 On Monday morning, several individuals on social media 
reported difficulties with the sites, with Gmail, YouTube 
and Google Drive all displaying error messages without 
further confirmation.
Source: www.news18.com
NETWORK PROBLEM
 Problems with the networks spiked at about 6:30 a.m., 
according to Down Detector, a blog that aggregates 
instances of internet service outages.
Source: www.cnbc.com
GOOGLE CLASSROOM
 Services like Google Classroom as well as the Play Store 
- the hub of Android applications - have also been 
reported to malfunction. 
Source: www.plungedaily.com
INCOGNITO MODE
 Some users had indicated that YouTube, of all other 
Google services, could be accessed on incognito 
mode/private modes of browsers during the outage. 
This anomaly was only observed for YouTube, and not 
for other services.
Source: www.businesstoday.in
SYSTEM FAILURES
 In the United States, Britain and throughout Europe and 
Asia, Google tools struggled to load for users, but after 
about an hour they started running again for several 
people. 
 For any website or provider, outages are not rare, with 
organisations like Google as well as Apple, 
Amazon.com, Microsoft and others suffering them 
regularly due to transient system failures often caused 
by human error.
Source: www.businesstoday.in
IMAPCT ACROSS GLOBE
 The outage of Google is noteworthy for its prevalence 
across the Alphabet portfolio, impacting all of its 
common applications, including Google Hangouts, 
Google Chats and Google Meet, goods used widely by 
individuals during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Source: www.businesstoday.in
SEARCH PRODUCT PERFORMANCE
 However the company's search product performed 
properly throughout and third-party advertisements, the 
primary revenue engine of Google, appeared evident in 
searches, indicating that advertisement was untouched.
Source: www.webappick.in