Google Service Outage on May 14, 2009
Users of Google services experienced slow service or interruptions in service on May 14, 2009. Here's what happened and what users should know.
Yesterday, Google suffered an outage that affected people using Google Calendar and Google Mail. The services were either unavailable or extremely slow.
In the past year, True Blade has become a big fan of Google Calendar, Google Contacts, and Google Mail. They've become critical to how we do our work and we highly recommend each of the services to our clients.
So when any of these services go down, we know first-hand that it's painful, and we understand that users are concerned.
It's especially frustrating that with technology problems the time required to restore service is often unknown. Nonetheless, we remain confident that Google aspires to high standards and that data saved on Google servers will always be safe, if not always available at every moment of the day or night.
More information about the Google Service Outage of May 14, 2009:
NY Times Blog Entry on the Google Service Outage
