If Google Went Down What Would You Do?

Martin — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:52:38 +0000

Most Internet users rely heavily on Google. They use Google to search, Google Mail for emails, Google Reader for feed reading, Google Adsense or Adwords in their business and various other Google services. That got me thinking about the consequences of a Google downtime. What would you do if Google went down completely for a few hours or even days.

Would you be affected at all? Would you be able to access other systems and use them until Google would be up again? One serious problem with a company that has such a large market share is that their demise would affect a large part of the population. Pretty much everyone would be affected in one way or another if Google services would not be accessible anymore.

The Download Squad published an article yesterday about Google being down for 18 minutes. It turned out to be a false alarm and a problem of the Internet Provider Verizon and not Google.

Imagine how much buzz a downtime of an hour or two would create on the Internet. So, coming back to the initial question. What would you do and how would you be affected if Google went down right now?

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If Google Went Down What Would You Do?

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