On the evening of the 14th of December, giant search engine Google and its services like Gmail, YouTube and Google docs, faced sudden global outage. 

The issue was reported by netizenz through their social media platform handles like Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.

Users said, Google’s webpages were redirecting to an error page, YouTube was also unable to open and docs were also showing error while opening any file. 

According to the Down Detector, issues at Google began around 5:00 P.M., on the 14th of December.  The outage was reported by users across the globe.

Users said on social media that a 500 error was displayed when they tried to search for something on Google.

YouTube displayed a ‘Something went wrong…’ error on its homepage, while Gmail displayed ‘Oops… the system encountered a problem (#2014)’. Google Drive and its apps such as Docs, Sheets etc weren’t working either, the page displayed the message, ‘Google Docs encountered an error. Please try reloading this page or coming back to it in a few minutes.’

This is a developing story, more details awaited.

Stay tuned for further updates.

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