Google has been hit by blackouts in a large group of nations around the globe on Wednesday (March 13). Many clients highlighting issues with Gmail and Google Drive that they can’t send mails, attach documents in Gmail and access records/files on Drive.
In the previous 24 hours, more than 1,500 clients from the US, more than 900 from Australia and more than 200 from Malaysia have highlighted the cause.
As indicated by Downdetector.com, a site that tracks issues and outages with different administrations and applications, the blackouts are being knowledgeable in parts of India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, China, Australia, and the US. A blackout map and graph on the site shows that users in Japan, China and India are likewise encountering issues with Gmail.
The Google disruption first came to light through social media posts at around 10 am.
In Australia, the hashtag #gmaildown was trending. What’s more, a few clients downplayed the circumstance by claiming it made it impossible for them to work.
A few people in Australia detailed that the blackouts were a decent reason for not working through the evening.
Others recommended the issues could compel individuals to revive their humiliating once-utilized Hotmail addresses.
Gmail has more than one billion users over the globe. Passing by the information shared by the website, around 36 percent of Gmail clients are having an issue signing into the mailing service. While some are experiencing difficulty sending messages.
“Message couldn’t be sent. Check your network and try again” – this is the message that the affected Gmail clients are seeing when efforting to send a mail.
Around 32 percent are confronting trouble in getting messages and very nearly 30 percent of clients are experiencing difficulty while uploading the files.
If the occurrence of Google Drive, 42 percent of Drive clients can’t access to the files on the web, 32 percent of influenced clients can’t stack the application, and ultimately, the rest 24 percent of clients are confronting inconvenience in document syncing.
Google did not affirm the reason for the issue as well as not expressed any purpose behind the blackout or until when can these issues be settled. Just about 2 to 3 hours after the principal issue was accounted for via social media, Google acknowledged the issue in an official explanation.
“We’re investigating reports of an issue with Gmail. We will provide more information shortly. The affected users are able to access Gmail, but are seeing error messages, high latency, and/or other unexpected behavior”, posted at 8:23 am on its G Suite Status Dashboard on Wednesday.
Followed by another statement at 10:14 am, in which Google said- “We are continuing to investigate this issue. We will provide an update by 3/13/19, 11:14 AM detailing when we expect to resolve the problem. Users will have issues accessing or attaching files or records in different items”, including “attaching or accessing attachments” to emails, “as well as accessing and saving the draft mails and sending emails.”
Google additionally affirmed there were issues with transferring and downloading documents from Google Drive and uploading photographs or attachments to Hangouts, in addition to this, Google Maps likewise seemed, by all accounts, to be encountering issues, with users who attempted to activate Street View mode seeing a dark screen, rather than pictures of the area. This issue was not affirmed by Google on its G Suite dashboard.
Reports are even surfacing that YouTube is additionally encountering glitches. Most YouTube users are seeing blunder messages, encountering slow loading time and issues while uploading videos.
Google’s authentic TeamYouTube account on Twitter has recognized the issue and said it’s taking a shot at a fix.
A few clients have taken to Twitter to vent their disappointments, here’s what they tweet:
This isn’t the year’s first outage with Google administrations. A comparative however short outage had happened in January affecting users living in portions of Europe, North America, South America, and Asia. Clients all over the globe announced a 404 error when they took a stab to access Gmail.
