Google Web Outages Show How Vulnerable Online Services Are

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The incident is symptomatic of the relationship we have with Google and others. Facebook and so many have become part and parcel of our lives, so much so that we may feel lost without them around. It is also becoming a worrying trend that Google suffers such widespread outages from time to time. The Gmail one earlier this year was pretty bad as well.

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Google Suffers Another Embarrassing Service Disruption

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Google Says Outage Caused By Traffic Routing Error

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As Google Goes, So Goes My Internets

(Information Week)