Google's email service crumbled yesterday
for about 40 minutes, leaving millions of enterprise and consumer users without access to their cloud-stored email.
Gmail didn't fall down due to a denial-of-service attack as
was reported initially yesterday (which was quickly amended), despite no initial evidence to suggest that it was. The search giant
said on its dashboard status pages:
Although our engineering team is still fully engaged on investigation, we are confident we have established the root cause of the event and corrected it.
Then
millions of Google Chrome browsers crashed at around the same time. In some cases, Chrome crashed multiple times times within a short period. (It happened to me. Chrome crashed about three times in the space of 20 minutes, annoyingly, as I was -- ironically -- writing about the Gmail outage and Chrome crashes.)
