The outage appeared to his users at around 3 p.m. on Thursday, with DownDetector, a site that tracks online issues, citing nearly 5,000 reports within the hour.

(Disclosure: Downdetector is owned by the same parent company as CNET, Ziff Davis.) Google acknowledged the incident on the Workspace Status Dashboard page, but declared it closed with 46 minutes.

A massive internet outage has hit the US, knocking dozens of popular websites offline. According to Downdetector, Google, YouTube, Etsy, Spotify and many others went down around 1pm ET.

Google Cloud's status website showed the incident impacting thousands across the world began at about 12 p.m. PT. Downdetector showed over 40,000 users reported issues on Spotify.

Google Drive and Google Docs are down…at least for some people. According to Downdetector, the popular cloud service and software suite appeared to crater out of existence at 12:57pm Eastern ...

Gmail is pre-installed on most Android phones, and we usually don't mind it either, because you need a Google account to set up an Android device anyway. A little-known feature of its Android app ...

It is unclear whether all interruptions beyond Google are caused by their reliance on Google Cloud products. As of 3 p.m. PT, Downdetector was still receiving user reports for apps like Spotify.

Google Calendar is down for lots of us, and people are freaking out about it. According to the website tacker DownDetector, Google has been having issues—largely with its Calendar application ...

By 1:30, many of the affected websites began to restore service, according to data from DownDetector. Google Cloud provides various services that have become baked into the critical infrastructure ...