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The event began at approximately 4:37pm Pacific Time and lasted between one and five minutes, according to the Google Apps Dashboard. All of the Google Apps services reported being back online by 4:48pm.
The incident apparently blacked out every service Mountain View has to offer simultaneously, from Google Search to Gmail, YouTube, Google Drive, and beyond.
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According to web analytics firm GoSquared, worldwide internet traffic dipped by a stunning 40 per cent during the brief minutes that the Chocolate Factory's services were offline. Here's the graph of what that looked like:
They may be turning into "just another company" (like Apple is still a paragon of creativity, snort) - but just holy crap. That's a lot of the intertubes.
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RKP5637
(67,030 posts)you've been blocked from all of the intertubes! What did I do? And on the serious side shows how dependent and vulnerable we are getting on our wired resources ...
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)YOU are the one who broke the internet?
RKP5637
(67,030 posts)bemildred
(90,061 posts)think4yourself
(837 posts)into the new Utah storage facility now.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)Possible thread win there.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)RKP5637
(67,030 posts)Nictuku
(3,570 posts)BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)LuvNewcastle
(16,820 posts)The internet is a precious world resource. I don't know how it would be done, but an international organization (the UN?) needs to be put in charge of keeping it safe. Our freedom is in jeopardy if it becomes controlled by an oligarchy, if it isn't already.
sir pball
(4,726 posts)Debates about how much influence Google should have aside, I'm quite reassured by the fact that they were able to rectify a failure of literally historic proportions in four minutes. Whatever went wrong was HUGE, far beyond what any failover/backup systems can even conceptualize let alone handle...and it was back up in almost no time. That's some incredibly impressive engineering there.
Posteritatis
(18,807 posts)PowerToThePeople
(9,610 posts)sir pball
(4,726 posts)Granted it was 7:30 EST but there's still a lot of business going on, and a lot of business uses stuff like Drive and especially Analytics - Collusion reports almost every page I visit is phoning home to Analytics, that service probably accounts for a third of Google's activity.
PowerToThePeople
(9,610 posts)Personally, I block analytics via DNS. It is too invasive. I should just outright dump the ip addresses at my firewall.
dickthegrouch
(3,151 posts)Doesn't entirely work. (I'm assuming Norton Internet Security was functioning correctly when I used it for said blocking). Google analytics, doubleclick and several others regularly defeat my attempts at protection. They have some clever algorithm for getting around a single IP address and even a domain blockage.
The best way to stop it is using Ghostery to block.
PowerToThePeople
(9,610 posts)But, I would think domain blacklisting would work. I have not been monitoring traffic through my firewall, but the results I see using my browser lead me to think that domain blocking is working.
dickthegrouch
(3,151 posts)noscript and ghostery.
ghostery seems to catch a lot of things noscript doesn't.
justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)host their javascript from Google--it helps with caching and such. The only other thing that I can think of that would be worse than Google going down is Amazon, since I lot of people use their cloud hosting.