Earlier today, reports began emerging Google was down.
While it has since returned, it once again highlights our dependence on technology service providers and shows how reliant many people are on a single operator for daily functions.There are few things we completely rely upon in our modern lives, but for many people, Google is one.
Its brief disappearance from the internet felt, for many, like an almost-apocalyptic moment – underscoring how deeply 'googling' has been integrated into our lives.when the cloud computing firm Fastly had an outage last year,"It's disconcerting when the sites we rely on suddenly become inaccessible, and even more so when it happens on such a vast scale".According to Downdetector there was a significant spike in outage reports for Google earlier today.
"There were more than 40,000 incidents of people reporting issues with the world's largest search engine, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources including user-submitted errors on its platform".
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