# Why can I no longer connect to Google News? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 12, 2016, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-can-i-no-longer-connect-to-google-news/748704 "2016-03-12T01:32:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2016, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-can-i-no-longer-connect-to-google-news/748704/1 "2016-03-12T01:32:21Z")
After years of being able to access Google News at [https://news.google.com/](https://news.google.com/) I now get “This webpage is not available ERR\_CONNECTION\_TIMED\_OUT”. This has been going on for nearly 2 weeks. No other problems connecting to any other website. It happens with both Chrome and IE, but at IE I get the message "This page can’t be displayed •Make sure the web address [https://news.google.com](https://news.google.com) is correct. •Look for the page with your search engine. •Refresh the page in a few minutes." My workaround has been just going to [https://news.google.ca/](https://news.google.ca/) which I’ve set for the US edition. All my news preferences etc. have been preserved. So it’s not a big deal, I’m just curious as to why I can’t reach their main website. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2016, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-can-i-no-longer-connect-to-google-news/748704/2 "2016-03-12T01:37:34Z")
Connects for me just fine. Have you checked your deodorant lately? ---
**Author:** ![steatopygia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steatopygia/32/3132_2.png) [@steatopygia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/steatopygia)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2016, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-can-i-no-longer-connect-to-google-news/748704/3 "2016-03-12T04:14:23Z")
I access google news via their home (search) page. Works fine for me. How does this make you feel? ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2016, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-can-i-no-longer-connect-to-google-news/748704/4 "2016-03-12T05:14:10Z")
Goonoos works fine for me. It’s my home page. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2016, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-can-i-no-longer-connect-to-google-news/748704/5 "2016-03-12T05:47:36Z")
Earlier today (Friday) my neighbor complained of obscure cryptic error messages while trying to connect to craigslist, but it worked just fine for me. It even worked just fine for me on his computer, as long as I was doing the typing, unless he was telling me what to type, except there was nothing wrong with that either. Go figure. We were both noticing that connecting to various web sites was very slow that day. Must be something in the air. Maybe all this rain we’re having. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2016, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-can-i-no-longer-connect-to-google-news/748704/6 "2016-03-15T00:34:15Z")
Google news is still not working for me, though the workaround via the Canadian website still functions. And now as of today, Google Maps gives me the same error message. And the best workaround I can come up with for that just gives me a minimally functional version with no capacity to have satellite view or trip directions. And ClassyGMap went dysfunctional too!! :eek: :mad: ---
**Author:** ![jasg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f0a364/32.png) [@jasg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jasg)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2016, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-can-i-no-longer-connect-to-google-news/748704/7 "2016-03-15T00:54:16Z")
Are you using a portable device? Do you get the same results on other wifi networks? ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2016, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-can-i-no-longer-connect-to-google-news/748704/8 "2016-03-15T02:52:21Z")
It’s the Vegemite. Interferes with the wi-fi signal. ---
**Author:** ![pidgeon92](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/50afbb/32.png) [@pidgeon92](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pidgeon92)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2016, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-can-i-no-longer-connect-to-google-news/748704/9 "2016-03-15T02:57:33Z")
Try clearing your browser’s cache. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2016, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-can-i-no-longer-connect-to-google-news/748704/10 "2016-03-15T06:08:16Z")
When I was working tech phone support for a company that wrote and hawked a specific app, we had one knee-jerk answer for all problems, big and small: FDISK! It worked too. After telling various customers to do that, we hardly ever heard from them again. (Actually, just half-kidding. That was just our in-house standing joke. I’m not sure we actually ever told users that. Well, maybe sometimes it was the right thing to do.) ---
**Author:** ![Richox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@Richox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richox)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2016, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-can-i-no-longer-connect-to-google-news/748704/11 "2016-03-15T12:09:26Z")
dns issue? try changing the dns in your modem interface to googles : 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 ---
**Author:** ![Ornery\_Bob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/da6949/32.png) [@Ornery\_Bob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ornery_Bob)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2016, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-can-i-no-longer-connect-to-google-news/748704/12 "2016-03-15T19:26:15Z")
Have you tried pinging them from a command prompt? C:>ping [news.google.com](http://news.google.com) This will tell you if your DNS is messed up. ---
**Author:** ![Folacin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folacin/32/3195_2.png) [@Folacin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folacin)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2016, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-can-i-no-longer-connect-to-google-news/748704/13 "2016-03-15T20:12:10Z")
Home or work? If work, maybe your network admin has put a block in (and didn’t block the Candadian site)? ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2016, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-can-i-no-longer-connect-to-google-news/748704/14 "2016-03-15T22:36:41Z")
> [@Ornery\_Bob](#): > > Have you tried pinging them from a command prompt? > > C:>ping [news.google.com](http://news.google.com) > > This will tell you if your DNS is messed up. “request timed out” x 4 Packets sent = 4 received = 0 lost = 4 It’s my home internet system. On my desktop system, which is working well with all my other usual sites, including gmail and google search in general. Same results for trying to access those google sites on my wife’s laptop, which is on the same wi-fi. She too can access gmail and google search, but news gives the same result as when I try, and so does google maps, giving us a closeup of our area, but no icon for changing to satellite view, and the menu drop down button doesn’t function. I miss my maps! Haven’t tried changing the dns of the modem yet . . . ---
**Author:** ![Ornery\_Bob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/da6949/32.png) [@Ornery\_Bob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ornery_Bob)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2016, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-can-i-no-longer-connect-to-google-news/748704/15 "2016-03-15T23:21:26Z")
Try flushing the dns on the machines having issues - at the command prompt… C:>ipconfig /flushdns ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2016, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-can-i-no-longer-connect-to-google-news/748704/16 "2016-03-15T23:37:41Z")
> [@Ornery\_Bob](#): > > Try flushing the dns on the machines having issues - at the command prompt… > > C:>ipconfig /flushdns ☹ No such luck. The DNS resolver cache successfully flushed, but it did not resolve the issue. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2016, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-can-i-no-longer-connect-to-google-news/748704/17 "2016-03-16T00:16:08Z")
Who is your ISP? I’m on Comcast and I’ve recently noticed a lot of slowness on many Google sites. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2016, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-can-i-no-longer-connect-to-google-news/748704/18 "2016-03-16T00:56:53Z")
> [@jz78817](#): > > Who is your ISP? I’m on Comcast and I’ve recently noticed a lot of slowness on many Google sites. Time-Warner. It’s not slow, it’s going at its usual speed for most sites. It just won’t connect with the main google news site, and won’t give me a working google map site either. ---
**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:** [March 16, 2016, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-can-i-no-longer-connect-to-google-news/748704/19 "2016-03-16T04:26:43Z")
Comcast user in California, both sites work fine for me on both Chrome and Firefox (I refuse to use IE unless there is no other available choice). ---
**Author:** ![Richox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@Richox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richox)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2016, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-can-i-no-longer-connect-to-google-news/748704/20 "2016-03-16T11:40:29Z")
I had a similar issue before, where one or two sites I used to frequent (can’t recall the url… But regular, popular sites) just suddenly would not resolve from my home network. The only thing that worked was swapping the DnS like I suggested above, so I reckon you should give that a whirl, only takes twenty seconds to do [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-can-i-no-longer-connect-to-google-news/748704.md?page=2)