# What's wrong with Google today?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-google-today/351900>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 8, 2006, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-google-today/351900 "2006-04-08T23:43:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-google-today/351900/1 "2006-04-08T23:43:12Z")

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All day I’ve been getting “connection refused” when I try to access google. I can get to Google scholar and Google maps, but not regular Google. Does anyone know what’s up? I’m just curious.

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**Author:** ![Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f0a364/32.png) [@Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rube_E.Tewesday)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-google-today/351900/2 "2006-04-08T23:47:33Z")

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Working fine for me…

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**Author:** ![ratatoskK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ratatoskk/32/2987_2.png) [@ratatoskK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ratatoskK)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-wrong-with-google-today/351900/3 "2006-04-08T23:56:43Z")

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Oops, I rebooted and now it works!! God knows why. Mods, you can close this silly thread.