The breakdown will have been short-lived, but it has reacted.
This Monday evening, tens of thousands of users of Google services reported problems to the benchmark site DownDetector.com.
The American giant reacted quickly and everything quickly returned to normal.
"We are aware of a software update issue that occurred late this afternoon that briefly affected the availability of Google Search and Maps, and we apologize for the inconvenience," a doorman said. -word of Google, contacted by AFP.
“We worked quickly to resolve the issue and our services are back online,” he added.
Several Google apps affected
“User reports indicate that there have been problems on Google Maps since 9:36 p.m. (
according to the US East Coast time zone, which is 3:36 a.m. this Tuesday morning, French time
), “tweeted the DownDetector site overnight. from Monday to Tuesday.
User reports indicate Google Maps is having problems since 9:36 PM EDT.
https://t.co/q4LGoQpcR6 RT if you're also having problems #googlemapsdown
— Downdetector (@downdetector) August 9, 2022
In the United States, more than 40,000 people have reported to DownDetector that Google is not working, especially in big cities like New York and Denver (Colorado).
This figure fell significantly in the two hours that followed.
Reports continued to arrive, in fewer numbers, for Google Cloud (remote computing) and Google Calendar, in particular.
