Google down for thousands of users: Downdetector

Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google was down for thousands of users on Monday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.

There were more than 40,000 incidents of people reporting issues with the world's largest search engine, according to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources including user-submitted errors on its platform.

User reports indicate CenturyLink is having problems since 9:40 PM EDT. https://t.co/DKPr1uLhES RT if you're also having problems #CenturyLinkdown

— Downdetector (@downdetector) August 9, 2022

Google search was not the only service impacted. The outage also impacted a range of other Google products such as YouTube, Google Photos, Google Maps, Google Drive, Google Duo, etc.

The services appear to be back now.

According to Google’s own appstatus dashboard there’s no reflection of an outage. Google has not yet issued a statement on the matter