Thousands of people lost access to its services on Monday night.
An electrical explosion wreaked havoc at one of its data centers on the same day.
Three people were seriously injured in the explosion.
The two incidents are not related to each other, according to the internet search engine. The company is blaming the problem on a software update, as reported by The Guardian, leading to speculation that the incidents were related.
Three workers were severely burned after an explosion at a nearby substation. The cause is under investigation.
Three people are currently being treated for injuries they sustained in an electrical incident at the data center.
DownDetector, a website that tracks internet service disruptions, reported a massive influx of internet service disruptions that began at 9:00 pm and ended at 9:41 pm.
Users trying to access everything from Gmail to Maps were met with error codes when they tried.
There is no way to know if the events are related or not.
The outage is a reminder of how much the internet depends on a single company. Billions of phones and other devices are powered by the Android operating system.
Paul Haskell- Downs wrote in The Conversation that the outage shows how reliant many people are on a single operator for daily functions.
It won't be the last major outage. As the story develops, we hope to get a better explanation of what happened.
Millions of customers may have been charged without their permission because of a piece of software on the operating system.
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