Reports began to emerge that the internet search engine was down.
It highlights our dependence on technology service providers and shows how many people are dependent on a single operator.
For a lot of people, the only thing they completely rely upon in their modern lives is the internet.
For many, its brief disappearance from the internet felt like an almost-death experience.
It's disconcerting when the sites we rely on suddenly become unavailable, and even more so when it happens on such a large scale, as I wrote about Fastly last year.
We are not sure yet. The internet giant has not commented on the issue.
There was a spike in the number of reports for the internet company. It was reported by the news wire.
According to Downdetector, there were more than 40,000 incidents of people reporting issues with the world's largest search engine.
The Guardian and DownDetector both reported that people had problems with accessing the internet.
ThousandEyes.com reported that over a thousand server were impacted by the outage.
Despite the scale of the incident, it only lasted for a short time before services were restored.
All technology providers are vulnerable to service failures.
There have been other outages, including a very large one in December, that were caused by lack of capacity in their systems.
We have become dependent on glitch for many aspects of life.
As has been the case before, today's incident was short-lived and did not become a big news story.
When there are service problems, Google has the ability to act quickly to fix them.
Many people noted that you can still use a different search provider, such as Bing or DuckDuckGo, if you need to use a different search provider when the internet is down.
The capacity to search for cat photos won't be affected by an almost unthinkable power failure.
The professor of cyber security practice is Paul Haskell-Dowland.
The article was written by The Conversation. The original article is worth a read.
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