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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.
Whatever happened to the man pages, y'know.
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.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Bing works pretty well most of the time. I switched my personal primary search engine to bing around the beginning of this year after noticing a marked degradation of Google search quality. In fact, anecdotally, Bing is markedly better at narrow search results (quoted phrases, excluding or including specific words, etc). Google on the other hand is significantly better at what I’d call fuzzy searches, where you don’t…
I feel like I need to read the manual for specific Google searches. Sometimes, it seems to drop an important search term and not give a suggestion link to include it. +term doesn’t help sometimes. It seems like +”term” usually does. It seems overfitted to delivering results with mass appeal. Perhaps I’ll try bing the next time I get that tingling feeling google will throw out the search terms intended to narrow down…
So they just look at popular (or profitable) queries.
you.com
(founder here :)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/google-electrical-incide... Three people in critical condition after Google data center 'electrical incident' in the Council Bluffs, Iowa datacenter (us-central region, I believe)
Good time to switch to a search engine that has code snippets, coding tutorials, AI code completion, AI blog writing, a useful yelp app, great privacy, gives control over the sources and apps I want to see and summarizes pros/cons for products. you.com (founder here :)
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.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Seems unrelated. This happened ~10 hours ago.
10 hours ago we had a flood of network failures in us-central1 and saw no GCP status changes. We blindly attempted to mitigate in various ways (freezing HPAs because we thought that we were making excessive calls to external infra and getting throttled) and it resolved itself eventually. Maybe we were at fault the entire time but not seeing this issue exposed up on the GCP dashboard is infuriating.
Google clearly saw my search engine's week-long outage as I reconstructed the index and felt confused and intimidated by the revelation that 89.9999% also is five nines.