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Google, YouTube hit with rare service outages

Services appear to be returning

Ken Haddad, Digital Content Manager

Tags: Google, YouTube, Technology, Outages, Gmail, Remote Learning, Google Docs, Google Products
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Google, YouTube and other Google services reported massive outages on Monday morning.

According to DownRightNow, Gmail, YouTube, Google Drive, Google Docs and other Google tools were not working on Monday morning across the globe.

TechCrunch reports that some services are coming back online as of about 7:45 a.m. (I tried to access Google and YouTube and was successful)

The outage comes as many schools around the world are using these services to facilitate remote learning.

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About the Author:

Ken Haddad is the digital content and audience manager for WDIV / ClickOnDetroit.com. He also authors the Morning Report Newsletter and various other newsletters. He's been with WDIV since 2013. He enjoys suffering through Lions games on Sundays in the fall.

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