--- title: "The Search Engine, Google and its Services went Down during Early Hours of the Day" description: "Google and most of its related services were found to go down during the early hours of August 9. But after some time all the services were back onlin" author: "Siddhi Shaw" published: 2022-08-08 canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/news/1845/the-search-engine-google-and-its-services-went-down-during-early-hours-of-the-day category: "google" tags: ["google", "youtube", "gmail", "google maps", "google photos"] reading_time: 2 minutes --- # The Search Engine, Google and its Services went Down during Early Hours of the Day **Google** and most of its related services were found to go down during the early hours of **August 9**. The huge outage appeared which had affected several Google services along with the company's iconic [search engine](https://www.mindstick.com/services/search-engine-optimization). **[Google Maps](https://www.mindstick.com/news/1759/fuel-efficient-routes-for-ev-and-others-soon-going-to-be-offered-by-google-maps)**, **[Google Photos](https://www.mindstick.com/news/1092/google-photos-cinematic-memories-feature-will-soon-fill-in-any-blanks-in-the-background)**, **Google Drive**, **Google Duo**, **[GMail](https://www.mindstick.com/news/633/google-webview-update-fixes-gmail-chrome-crash-issue)**, and **[YouTube](https://www.mindstick.com/news/1766/google-was-fined-360-million-by-russia-over-youtube-videos-that-included-prohibited-content)** were some of the other services that thousands of users had faced difficulty accessing this morning. ``` HIGHLIGHTS Google Maps, Photos, Drive, Duo, GMail, and YouTube were inaccessible to users At 6:37 a.m. IST the outage began and by 7:22am all the services were back online The outage was reported from the places of the United States, Australia, and India ``` The [outage](https://www.mindstick.com/news/1779/microsoft-users-faced-an-outage-with-microsoft-teams) issues began at around **6:37 a.m. IST** it was the time when the problems started to rise above the baseline and by **7:07am** there were over **41,000** such complaints. By **7:22am**, the affected services went to normal and no such cause for disruption has been established. Well, [Google](https://www.mindstick.com/news/1785/an-engagement-of-google-india-with-policymaker-on-data-protection-legalisation-is-visible) was fast to address its issue and currently, all the services are back to online. There were multiple users across the world they all had encountered the **Error 500** messages and were [unable to access](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/50571/why-is-my-apple-iphone-8-unable-to-access-wi-fi-internet-and-how-to-fix-it) any of these services. Some users reaction on **Twitter** ranged from amused to surprised, there were several users who claimed that they had never seen **Google Search** go down before. Basically, the issue of outage was reported from the places of the **United States**, **Australia**, and **India**. Therefore, many users were found posting the screenshots showing the messages about an [internal server error](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/159408/an-api-request-returns-a-500-internal-server-error-how-to-fix-this-error) rather than their expected search results. No one would have ever expected that Google would ever go down like this that too even during the early hours of the day. Also Read: [On hottest day of UK, London's Google Cloud data centre faced outage](https://www.mindstick.com/news/1772/on-hottest-day-of-uk-london-s-google-cloud-data-centre-faced-outage) --- Original Source: https://www.mindstick.com/news/1845/the-search-engine-google-and-its-services-went-down-during-early-hours-of-the-day Copyright © MindStick Software Pvt. Ltd. This Markdown version is provided for developers, AI systems, and offline reading.