Google confirms widespread outage affecting search engine, says it could take hours to fix
NY Post
Google was experiencing a widespread service outage on Friday morning affecting its search engine, news feed and other products — and signaled it’s working on a fix.
A spike in user reports regarding services outages on Google products occurred around 8 a.m. ET, according to Down Detector, a website that tracks online outages. More than 1,000 reports were posted as of 9 am ET and originated from locations across the US.
Google confirmed it had identified an “ongoing issue with serving some features in Google Search” on its service dashboard, but did not provide further details or address reports of problems with other products.
“We’ve identified the issue and we’re working on a fix,” the company said. “Next update will be within 12 hours.”
The Post has reached out to Google for further comment.
The service outage prompted a wave of reaction from users on X and other platforms.
