Comments on: If Google Went Down What Would You Do?

By: Google Downtime » sherrierohde | new media designer

Google Downtime » sherrierohde | new media designer — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 01:17:24 +0000

[...] articles that amused me, mainly because I hadn’t noticed outages in the past. Once was titled “If Google Went Down, What Would You Do?”; this one made me laugh a little as I realized my internal answer was shock as the possibility [...]

By: aaron

aaron — Thu, 14 May 2009 15:41:15 +0000

Down in DC as well. This might just be the thing that pushes me to diversify my web experience.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 14 May 2009 15:38:53 +0000

Google is down for me too. Everything, search, mail, the whole shebang.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 14 May 2009 15:08:21 +0000

All of Google’s services (search, gmail, CorpMail, Maps) have been down for our entire office for nearly 30-minutes so far. This is a first for us. Red Bank, NJ

By: Caroline

Caroline — Tue, 12 May 2009 22:39:23 +0000

Matthias, I’m finding the same thing, except it’s only their web servers. POP3 retrieval from gmail to my email client appears to be working fine, and pings are responding to google.ca (where I am).

It sort of feels like the power going down and the din falling silent.

By: Matthias

Matthias — Tue, 12 May 2009 12:49:42 +0000

Well…currently I believe that Google is down. Maybe it’s just on their European servers, but I cannot access Google from any computer that I have tried. My worst fears are coming true…

By: Googler

Googler — Sun, 10 May 2009 05:57:55 +0000

I would be in serious trouble, I use their search, email, maps, news and browser every day, I’m not very familiar with yahoo, when I first started using google in ‘03 I haven’t really used anything else, I suppose I could use yahoo for search, cnn for news, hotmail for email, and IE, but not for more than a day.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:46:00 +0000

Now we know. Gmail is down and it is killing me.

By: Yggdrazil

Yggdrazil — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 10:57:22 +0000

I’d be stuck’d, use it for “everything”, thanks for the good question, have made my backups now ;) cheers

By: marcelo

marcelo — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 10:22:46 +0000

I think it happened just this year, although, just gmail. many people cried out, but if it’s only a day or two, there’s always yahoo and the like.. :)

By: Angelo R.

Angelo R. — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:09:46 +0000

Like everyone else, most of my life revolves around using Google.

Google for search, Google Reader for feeds, Google docs and spreadsheets for collaborating with people and Google Notebook for quick notes to myself.

In a way I wish I could move away from using Google so much, but it’s become too engrained in my life and I can’t think off a better feed reader (I’ve tried a lot of them, from online to desktop)

By: Declan

Declan — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:11:35 +0000

Well I use hotmail for email, and Firefox for feeds, so I’d only be affected for searching. Fortunately if hotmail went down, I’ve a few Google email accounts to use instead.

By: Dante

Dante — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:52:30 +0000

Call my lawyers and see how much money I can make?

By: Alan

Alan — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:47:05 +0000

I remember when a DDoS attack brought Google down in 2004. I was like, let me go search to see what’s going on…oh crap.

By: Syber

Syber — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:08:23 +0000

That’s an interesting question. It also lets me think about another question: If Google is a devil how can we do?

By: tartooob

tartooob — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:01:24 +0000

Google will never go down :)

By: Dotan Cohen

Dotan Cohen — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:43:24 +0000

Nice web services don’t go down.

By: MKR

MKR — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:42:06 +0000

I have backups of everything in the event of a long outage, and I can’t see Google ever going away for good. Even AOL persists, and they don’t even have a fraction of Google’s viable products.

By: The Windows Fix

The Windows Fix — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:38:08 +0000

It would be tough, but I might be able to get by with Yahoo. The questions is, if Google went down, what would millions of online business’ do?

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:11:23 +0000

I would be screwed, I like so many, rely on Google on a daily basis, they hold my primary email, my main feed reader. I’ve recently begun using notebook & Google Docs, very nice as well. They will soon have my healthcare records and then next thing you know they’ll have a dating service, they’ll begin matching & breeding people for their own purposes based on the TON of information they know about everyone. We need google, google needs us.

I for one welcome our Google overlords…