Google users hit by mail blackout. Google has apologised for the outage that hit business and consumer users of its popular e-mail service. The GMail service went offline at 0930 GMT and, Google claims, was unavailable to all for "approximately two and a half hours". But anecdotal evidence suggests it was out of action for many users for about four hours - one of the longest downtimes ever suffered by Google. More than 113 million people use Google mail worldwide, according to comScore.
In a statement posted on its official Google blog it said: "We're really sorry about this, and we did do everything to restore access as soon as we could.". It said its engineers were still investigating the "root cause" of the problem. more... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7907583.stm _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
