According to the report in Mercury News, Google’s Gmail service was interrupted for more than an hour on Friday. The interruption is still unexplained and it also affected Google Plus social network and some of the other Google’s web services which include Google Docs, Google Calendar and Google Talk. Google corporation’s services such as Gmail and Google Plus are widely used email service in the entire world.
The interruption surprised many and people were unaware about the outage of the system server. Explanation is still pending from Google as they are not yet offered any clarification on this issue. It was nuisance for many businesses and individuals who rely on the Google’s web based email services. Some of the users diverted themselves to other social media networking sites to make people aware of the Google partial interruption.
The Gmail outage started after 11 am Pacific Standard Time, but no serious fallout was reported from anywhere. Analysts say that Google has been updating its Gmail reliability. Everybody know that Gmail is started as a free consumer service which is now one of the several web based programs that Google sells to large corporations and government agencies.
Users reacted differently about this interruption from Google, Carter Pearson, a Twitter user tweeted as, “Had to walk across my office to talk to someone earlier, Thanks a lot, @gmail”. Aaron Levie, CEO of cloud storage startup Box, tweeted in a post as, “Gmail is down. World productivity is slowly fgrinding to a haly,”.
Gmail, an free email service by Google corporation is very popular than its rivals in the same category. Other free email provider, Yahoo also suffered a similar kind of problem in the last month. These kind of interruptions may happen to any service providers. For now it is more good that it didn’t caused any major damage for users.
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