Yes, Google Is Down Right Now (& Now Google Is Back)

Dec 14, 2020 - 6:56 am 4 by
Filed Under Misc Google

Yes, it appears a lot of Google services are currently down right now. You are not alone.

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This is Gmail, YouTube, Google My Business, Google AdSense, Google AdWords, Google Photos, Google Analytics, Gmail, Google Search Console, Admob, etc but not Google Search. I think logging into Google is broken also.

We even have Googlers joking that they cannot work due to the outage:

Of course, the big Google Search joke in the SEO world is [is google down] query says no, but technically, Google Search is up:

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You can check the Google Workspace status indicators, they are all currently red (have been since around 6:55am ET.

Update: Google services seem to be coming back up at 7:28am ET, so about a 30 minute outage.

Forum discussion at Twitter.

 

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