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Gmail and other Google services melting down today
Posted by Mike Klassen on December 9, 2008 in Zeitgeist
You only realize how much you depend upon something once it's gone. Take electricity, for example, or hot water.
It's not like camping out, but Gmail and many other critical tools such as Google Reader are all crippled by some kind of major meltdown making them slow and unusable. I only confirmed this was happening with many others by searching Twitter for realtime responses, and I found hundreds.
So far Google has not made any public statements about this, which is a shame. They may be offering services like these as "beta" or free (if you discount the constant presence of Adsense ads, which I don't), but they should be respectful enough of their customers to let them know when a problem exists.
Fortunately for me I have a back up email service, but the loss of Gmail will either cause a lot of people serious grief, or it might spark a mini-baby boom as people decide to shut off their damn computers for a while.
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