There's a typo in the page's title: `Error 500 (Server Error)!!1`
The !!1 is on 404 pages too: https://google.com/foo
Ask HN: Google Search down?
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Re: Ask HN: Google Search down?
#222Down 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.
Go over to the dark side http://Yandex.com . It's the only thing that's decent that doesn't rely on Google or Bing.
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#225Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
The difference in internet adoption rate between those two time periods likely plays a key role in that.
Telephony (landline and cell) was also down due to extreme volumes.
I don't know that in an event like that today we would do significantly better. Literally the entire country stopped for this to try and find info, because the event was just so extreme; the stoppage of all international flights and grounding them in Canada and Mexico with no notice was a side note, when that's literally never happened before. And, as with most major disasters of this type, the main issue was not physical damage but lack of electrical power to operate data centers and other infrastructure.
A good chunk of transatlantic traffic runs through New York. That IMO is probably a major thing that I don't know we can handle.
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#227Wikipedia 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
One time I was sitting in the New York metropolitan opera and heard Javier Camarena give an encore performance, which is quite rare. Immediately after the encore, it went to intermission. Once I walked out to the lobby, I checked his Wikipedia article on my phone and it had already been updated to note that he had just done an encore performance at the Met. It was insane how fast it was.
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#228Earlier quoted context omitted.
Google doesn't have HSTS (on google.com).
The irony. Google understands that HSTS negatively impacts availability massively, and shouldn't be used for production websites, but recommends it to others.
I don't care about the "availability" of an HTTP 500 page that much, to be honest.
Re: Ask HN: Google Search down?
#229Re: Ask HN: Google Search down?
#230Down 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.
You can work without being tracked and profiled here: https://duckduckgo.com/
DDG censors too much.