# Did Google have a brief hiccup around 6:35 pm (pacific time) today (Mon.)? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 9, 2022, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-google-have-a-brief-hiccup-around-6-35-pm-pacific-time-today-mon/969338 "2022-08-09T01:46:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2022, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-google-have-a-brief-hiccup-around-6-35-pm-pacific-time-today-mon/969338/1 "2022-08-09T01:46:31Z")
For about a minute, I tried three different searches, all resulting in a page that basically said “500 error”. Never happened before, and just hoping it wasn’t The Singularity, whatever that’s supposed to be. ---
**Author:** ![Kropotkin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kropotkin/32/18045_2.png) [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2022, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-google-have-a-brief-hiccup-around-6-35-pm-pacific-time-today-mon/969338/2 "2022-08-09T01:50:55Z")
Happened to me in Vancouver,BC, too ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2022, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-google-have-a-brief-hiccup-around-6-35-pm-pacific-time-today-mon/969338/3 "2022-08-09T01:51:30Z")
It was still going on 10 minutes later. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2022, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-google-have-a-brief-hiccup-around-6-35-pm-pacific-time-today-mon/969338/4 "2022-08-09T01:54:16Z")
It’s 6:53pm as I type from Sacramento, CA. DH had problems with Google Maps about 10 minutes ago, reported it working while I was typing. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2022, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-google-have-a-brief-hiccup-around-6-35-pm-pacific-time-today-mon/969338/5 "2022-08-09T02:02:56Z")
Missouri - I had a short blip where my browser reported that Google was Not Secure but otherwise everything’s been fine. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2022, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-google-have-a-brief-hiccup-around-6-35-pm-pacific-time-today-mon/969338/6 "2022-08-09T02:11:39Z")
I had trouble too, but when I reloaded my search, it went through. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2022, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-google-have-a-brief-hiccup-around-6-35-pm-pacific-time-today-mon/969338/7 "2022-08-09T02:13:00Z")
> **[Google goes down, outage of the internet's front page is real](https://www.tweaktown.com/news/87832/google-goes-down-outage-of-the-internets-front-page-is-real/index.html)** > > Google is down right now, and no one knows why... for the first time in forever... I'm having to use an alternative search engine. I have personally never really wondered what Sonic’s feet look like. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2022, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-google-have-a-brief-hiccup-around-6-35-pm-pacific-time-today-mon/969338/8 "2022-08-09T02:37:18Z")
This happened about two hours after The News broke. Maybe its servers were overwhelmed? Anything’s possible. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2022, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-google-have-a-brief-hiccup-around-6-35-pm-pacific-time-today-mon/969338/9 "2022-08-09T02:58:53Z")
Sounds like perhaps an [electrical accident](https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/google-electrical-incident-injures-3-17360321.php) at a data center > Three electricians were critically injured and transported to a local hospital after an “electrical incident” at a Google data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa, according to the Council Bluffs Police Department and Google. > > […] Three electricians were working on a substation close to the data center buildings when an arc flash (an electric explosion) occurred, causing significant burns to all three electricians. ---
**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2022, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-google-have-a-brief-hiccup-around-6-35-pm-pacific-time-today-mon/969338/10 "2022-08-09T04:57:19Z")
I had issues with Google Maps around that time too. It kept piping up saying “Head north on 880 North!” which I had been doing for 20 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2022, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-google-have-a-brief-hiccup-around-6-35-pm-pacific-time-today-mon/969338/11 "2022-08-09T05:51:07Z")
I got a 404 on a search, and on reloading it. The third time (around a minute later) the search went through. I’ve had issues where I couldn’t reach Google for a little bit, but never a 404, which means that I reached the site but it couldn’t find the page. That was what seemed particularly odd. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2022, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-google-have-a-brief-hiccup-around-6-35-pm-pacific-time-today-mon/969338/12 "2022-08-09T18:13:07Z")
Software update was the cause. > **[Google outage: tech giant apologises after software update causes search...](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/09/google-outage-search-down)** > > Users reported the search engine was down and problems with Gmail, Google maps and Google images ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/b77776/32.png) [@Paul\_was\_in\_Saudi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_was_in_Saudi)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2022, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-google-have-a-brief-hiccup-around-6-35-pm-pacific-time-today-mon/969338/13 "2022-08-13T09:58:37Z")
In Pennsylvania, I have had Internet problems most of Thursday. The TV shut off, no SDMB. It was quite disorienting. I went to the garage as the mechanic had finished with my car. He reported the same symptoms. Probably just the machines shutting down communications in preparation for Judgement Day.