# Is anyone else experiencing a massive Google outage?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-experiencing-a-massive-google-outage/372247>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 11, 2006, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-experiencing-a-massive-google-outage/372247 "2006-09-11T04:32:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![threemae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f9b8f/32.png) [@threemae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/threemae)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2006, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-experiencing-a-massive-google-outage/372247/1 "2006-09-11T04:32:11Z")

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Google, the Mozilla startpage, Gmail, it’s all down and it has been so for the past four hours.

Has anyone else experienced this brief pause from “technical issues” on Google, and only Google’s webpages?

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**Author:** ![FlyingRamenMonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@FlyingRamenMonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRamenMonster)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2006, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-experiencing-a-massive-google-outage/372247/2 "2006-09-11T04:37:34Z")

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Google is working fine for me, but sometimes my firewall goes weird and starts interfering with certain websites. Google is often affected.

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**Author:** ![Brandon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f08c70/32.png) [@Brandon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brandon)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2006, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-experiencing-a-massive-google-outage/372247/3 "2006-09-11T05:17:41Z")

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No. I use Firefox too, everything you listed and more is working fine for me.