Google and YouTube which crashed for some time across the world are returning to normal but the internet giant has provided little detail about the major outage of multiple services that simultaneously crashed across the world for millions of users, sending the internet into a spin.
According to the website which tracks reports of major online service outages, almost all of Google’s major services shut down overnight including Google Drive and Hangouts.
YouTube, Gmail, Google Photos and Google Docs also suffered outages and Google’s office tools including Google Maps and its smart home products were also hit. Even Pokemon Go was down, reports indicate.
YouTube users were experiencing the message “something went wrong” while other messages included “there was an error”.
Google service in Australia ran smoothly until approximately 10.30pm, with reports of errors spiking at 10.59pm. Other countries affected included the UK, Russia, India, the US, Italy, Germany and New Zealand.
