Some time around noon ET today (some say it was earlier; Google says it was later), many Gmail users were unable to access their accounts and instead received a message reading "Temporary Error (500)." As to be expected, the world came perilously close to being engulfed in rioting, looting and other fun stuff. Twitter immediately exploded with people trying to out-joke each other about Gmail being down.
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Google suffered a serious outage to its Gmail web-email service, which could have left up to 35 million users without access to their messages Read Post
Google is working to fix problems with its Gmail service and restore missing e-mail messages to thousands of users on Monday. The outages and deleted message problems began on Sunday, according to a Google's App Status Dashboard, a ... Read Post
Gmail users were unable to access the Google e-mail service Tuesday afternoon. The company has since restored the service. The outage started Monday 1 p.m. Pacific time and service was restored to some users by 11:16 p.m. Tuesday, a... Read Post