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Re: Ask HN: Google Search down?

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Post by midoridensha »

pca006132 wrote: post #139
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.

Try Duckduckgo? Indeed, I don't remember when Google search was down last time either.

DDG is great, but as the other commenter said, it uses Bing mostly as its underlying search engine, which might not get you the results you're looking for (it's better at some things than Google, worse at others). For privacy though, DDG is great so I use it as my first-line search and then go to Google if I really need to.

Re: Ask HN: Google Search down?

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Post by dylan604 »

FirstLvR wrote: post #160
ontouchstart wrote: post #107

Wikipedia is fast https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_services_outages https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MobileDiff/110326202...

yeah am blaffed how good wikipedia is covering current events

How many 3rd party websites are available to corroborate these new edits?

Re: Ask HN: Google Search down?

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Post by wbl »

habibur wrote: post #186
gzer0 wrote: post #111

https://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/06/26/michael.jackson.internet... This reminds me of the distant past. The death of Michael Jackson resulted in ( almost literally) the entire internet suffering an outage.

More than that on 9/11. Every news site, online forum any online resource for news you can think of was unaccessible for hours. TV turned out to be the only news source.

TV had two channels in NJ: a lot of stations liked the towers and it took them a few days to rig up alternates.

Re: Ask HN: Google Search down?

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Post by hoofhearted »

shadowgovt wrote: post #196
hoofhearted wrote: post #189

Earlier quoted context omitted.

An arc blast isn’t anything to play with! It’s an electrically charged fireball that is 4 times hotter than the sun at the point of the arc. Pretty much instant 3rd degree burns, while simultaneously getting zapped and hit with an explosive shockwave. https://youtu.be/-iClXrd50Z8 https://youtu.be/PO6see7_ODY

The physics of those things is scary. If I recall correctly, the mitigating PPE for expecting an arc flash is reflective, because so much of the energy imparted on a victim is straight-up electromagnetic radiation. You get lightbulbed to death.

Yeah an arc flash suit is rated in cal/cm². It gets to a limit where the potential energy from a high voltage piece of equipment is so great that they don’t make a suit for it because the pressure from the shockwave is enough to kill you. Pretty much any utility transformer has this much potential energy, but they design them to make it near impossible to cross phases.

Re: Ask HN: Google Search down?

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Post by jeffbee »

aoetalks wrote: post #173

Really curious to see how a single (albeit large) DC issue caused a global outage. Further; was the DC not protected by redundant power? Also even more interested to see how this arc flash even happened. Presumably these were experienced engineers working with obviously dangerous power levels.

> was the DC not protected by redundant power?

If this topic is of great interest to you, US Patent 10,678,647 could be fun.

Re: Ask HN: Google Search down?

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Post by cornel_io »

pooper wrote: post #161
vehemenz wrote: post #37

A little slow, but it's working for me.

I searched https://www.google.com/search?q=is+google.com+down And I got answer No. I have no idea what it would quote to give this snippet answer...

If you're able to get the answer, it's correct, so no need to quote anything. Could be a hard-coded loc key.
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