Thousands of users report an outage on Google

UPDATE ; DAY

San Francisco | Tens of thousands of users of Google services reported outages to the benchmark site DownDetector.com on Monday evening, notably concerning the search engine but also Maps, its mapping application.

“User reports indicate that there are problems on Google Maps since 9:36 p.m. (according to the US East Coast time zone, which is 01:36 GMT on Tuesday),” the website tweeted overnight from Monday to Tuesday. .

Over 40,000 people in the United States reported to DownDetector that Google was not working for them at 9:20 p.m., including in major cities like New York and Denver, Colorado.

This figure dropped significantly in the two hours that followed, but the reports continued to arrive, in fewer numbers, for Google Cloud (remote computing) and Google Calendar, in particular.

Google did not immediately respond to a request from AFP.

On Twitter, some users of the engine dominant search engines posted screenshots of error messages, mentioning a server problem.