Google Web Outages Show How Vulnerable Online Services Are

Google has clarified that the service outage that took its search engine offline for many users in United States and several other countries on Thursday was result of an error in routing internet traffic.  Incidentally not only was the search engine not available, a number of other Google services such as Gmail, YouTube along with Google News too were unavailable.   Google claims that a routing error whereby some web traffic in United States ended up being...