Google was down for 15 minutes (+/- from 09:35 UTC) • Hacker News Board

NicoJuicy wrote: post #13

Some alternatives if you really need to search: https://duckduckgo.com/ http://www.bing.com Edit: I thought duckduckgo used search results from Google but without personalisation and tracking, removed my comment as this seems to be incorrect

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Re: Google was down for 15 minutes (+/- from 09:35 UTC)

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Post by scott_karana » Fri, Jul 04, 2014, 5:10 PM UTC

mootothemax wrote: post #18

The homepage sometimes works. The search results page sometimes works. The search result links , however, seem to be 90% broken, for example this is always broken: http://www.google.pl/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=... Edit: looks like that 5 minutes of fun is now over, and all is back to normal. I'd love to know how much that little outage cost Google.

More importantly, I wonder how much that outage cost everyone.

I've seen many computer users simply "give up using the Internet" when Google is down, returning after a coffee break to resume.

It wouldn't surprise me if Wikipedia, at least, had a measurable traffic drop during the outage. I think they even have public MRTG logs, so someone more enterprising than me could confirm that... :-)