If you’re an APAC resident and you’ve been experiencing intermittent Google services glitches throughout the afternoon, you’re not the only one — thousands of users have flocked to outage tracking sites like Downdetector and IsDown.app to report issues with the search giant, starting around
Downdetector received as many as 6,625 reports from Australia, specifically related to search, content not loading and the Google.com website. IsDown also received reports from India, the Philippines, New Zealand and Malaysia. There were also a handful of reports from the US and UK, although it’s unclear whether this was due to the time difference (it’s after midnight in the US and early morning in the UK) and the smaller number of online citizens it entails.
I’ve personally been experiencing the same issues all afternoon along with the rest of the TechRadar Australia team and other local colleagues, with searches on Google showing an error message that reads:
Server Error We apologize, but it appears that there has been an internal server error while processing your request. Our engineers have been notified and are working to resolve the issue. Please try again later.
Google has not yet confirmed the outcome in its Workspace Status Dashboard as of 8:00am BST / 3:00am EDT / 5:00pm AEST which still says “No Incidents”. We have reached out to Google Australia and New Zealand for comment, but had not yet received a response as of 5.45pm AEST.
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