All Google services are down right now. Users complained that they were unable to access Gmail, YouTube, and Docs and it appears to have been a global outage.


Google’s services appear to be down right now. According to the website, down detector, users appear to be face problems with Google services such as Gmail, YouTube, and Google Docs appear to be down. Users also took to Twitter to complain about the issues. Google’s Workspace Status Dashboard is now showing an outage. All services appear to show an outage. The company has not yet issued a statement on what can only be termed as the great Google blackout of 2020, though we have reached out to them for a comment.

When Google’s services go down, billion of users are impacted. That’s because Gmail, YouTube has more than a billion users on a monthly basis. The issue appears to be a worldwide problem and even users in India are reporting a problem. Some users reported seeing a 503 error when they tried to log in to their Gmail account. Others are seeing a 500 error when they try to log in.

When we tried opening YouTube, it says ‘Something went wrong’ and a picture of a monkey holding a wrench. Some people are also being kicked out of their ongoing Google Meet sessions and others were unable to join scheduled calls. Google Meet is the video-conferencing tool from the company.