Ask HN: Google Search down? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Google Search down?

#91

Post by pelagicAustral » Tue, Aug 09, 2022, 1:47 AM UTC

Amazing, it was down for me for about 10 minutes. Never seen this before.

Re: Ask HN: Google Search down?

#92

Post by nigelgutzmann » Tue, Aug 09, 2022, 1:47 AM UTC

erklik wrote: post #69

Down in Sydney. Intermittent errors when searching. How am I supposed to work? Also, I don't remember when Google Search was last down. Either google has great uptime, or I have terrible memory.

My memory suffers more outages than Google Search for sure!

Re: Ask HN: Google Search down?

#93

Post by swethmandava » Tue, Aug 09, 2022, 1:48 AM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: Google Search down?

#94

Post by TheAceOfHearts » Tue, Aug 09, 2022, 1:49 AM UTC

It never went down for me in Puerto Rico, wonder if the downtime was regional. It'll be interesting to read a postmortem.

Re: Ask HN: Google Search down?

#95

Post by rblatz » Tue, Aug 09, 2022, 1:49 AM UTC

I was getting a lot of errors on google maps trying to pull up information about different restaurants.

Re: Ask HN: Google Search down?

#96

Post by djsavvy » Tue, Aug 09, 2022, 1:50 AM UTC

Gonna use this as a chance to pub https://search.brave.com

I switched to this from DuckDuckGo several months ago because Brave uses their own index, while DDG famously uses Bing's. The results are a lot better in my experience and it feels like the search engine is built for me instead of for advertisers. Brave search just feels like cleaner, quieter tech. I've also never seen NSFW results on an innocuous search (a problem I had regularly with DDG). On the rare occasion I end up using Google, seeing the results page is a jarring (and slightly stressful) experience with all of the distractions and irrelevant results.

Re: Ask HN: Google Search down?

#97

Post by rdlw » Tue, Aug 09, 2022, 1:50 AM UTC

che_shirecat wrote: post #53

> googles "google status tracker" in chrome address bar oh.

These answer boxes are getting out of hand, you didn't even have to load a page to get the answer!

Re: Ask HN: Google Search down?

#98

Post by yomkippur » Tue, Aug 09, 2022, 1:52 AM UTC

djsavvy wrote: post #96

Gonna use this as a chance to pub https://search.brave.com I switched to this from DuckDuckGo several months ago because Brave uses their own index, while DDG famously uses Bing's. The results are a lot better in my experience and it feels like the search engine is built for me instead of for advertisers. Brave search just feels like cleaner, quieter tech. I've also never seen NSFW results on an innocuous search (a p…

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Re: Ask HN: Google Search down?

#99

Post by yomkippur » Tue, Aug 09, 2022, 1:52 AM UTC

propogandist wrote: post #90

https://search.brave.com is working fine

stop. spamming. brave.

Re: Ask HN: Google Search down?

#100

Post by Unjg4gByHdjnyvp » Tue, Aug 09, 2022, 1:53 AM UTC

Yup, tons of 500 and 502. Very intermittent though, refresh mostly works.