Google suffers Global outage as users report search engine down

New Delhi: Alphabet Inc’s Google was down on Monday for thousands of users, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.

Over 40,000 incidents were reported where the users raised the issues with the world’s largest search engine.

Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources including user-submitted errors on its platform.

However, Google did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.

User reports indicate Google is having problems since 9:12 PM EDT. https://t.co/MK35emuk7T RT if you’re also having problems #Googledown

— Downdetector (@downdetector) August 9, 2022

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