Ask HN: Google Search down?

#1

Post by alhirzel » Tue, Aug 09, 2022, 1:08 AM UTC

I am getting the following message when performing searches:

Server Error We're sorry but it appears that there has been an internal server error while processing your request. Our engineers have been notified and are working to resolve the issue.

Please try again later.

Re: Ask HN: Google Search down?

#2

Post by gunsch » Tue, Aug 09, 2022, 1:09 AM UTC

Yep. google.com homepage is giving me 502s.

It's been a looooong time :-o

edit: aaaand it's back

Re: Ask HN: Google Search down?

#3

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Aug 09, 2022, 1:09 AM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: Google Search down?

#4

Post by jameshe » Tue, Aug 09, 2022, 1:11 AM UTC

Noticed it was down for about 2 minutes, but up again. As with any big outage, I wonder how much money was lost in those 2 minutes...

Re: Ask HN: Google Search down?

#5

Post by techdragon » Tue, Aug 09, 2022, 1:18 AM UTC

If we didn’t need more evidence of search quality sliding downhill. When was the last time this happened for enough people (failed ab tests don’t count) that it cropped up on HN and got several confirmations that it was happening to other people. Not a good look for Google.

Re: Ask HN: Google Search down?

#6

Post by jwitthuhn » Tue, Aug 09, 2022, 1:24 AM UTC

I am seeing failures on and off. If I keep resubmitting it will go through eventually.

Re: Ask HN: Google Search down?

#7

Post by alhirzel » Tue, Aug 09, 2022, 1:26 AM UTC

jwitthuhn wrote: post #6

I am seeing failures on and off. If I keep resubmitting it will go through eventually.

same

Re: Ask HN: Google Search down?

#8

Post by donkeybeer » Tue, Aug 09, 2022, 1:29 AM UTC

Happening on some queries right now, mainly some image searches it seems, good to know I am not the only one.

Re: Ask HN: Google Search down?

#9

Post by sydney6 » Tue, Aug 09, 2022, 1:29 AM UTC

Search suggestions appear to be also down for me..

Re: Ask HN: Google Search down?

#10

Post by russellbeattie » Tue, Aug 09, 2022, 1:29 AM UTC

jameshe wrote: post #4

Noticed it was down for about 2 minutes, but up again. As with any big outage, I wonder how much money was lost in those 2 minutes...

OK, so in round numbers, Google makes roughly $65 billion in profit per quarter. Dividing by 90, is around $722 million per day, which is roughly $200,000 per second.

2 minutes is quite the expensive fuckup.