For about an hour, mostly in the Americas, Millions of users could experience how the internet world is today without Google. On August 9 around 3 a.m. Italian time, the Google search engine and several other services of the California giant stopped working, returning HTTP 500 and HTTP 502 server errors.
On August 8th, one of Google’s main data centers, Council Bluffs in Iowa, USA, was hit by a serious accident due to an electrical system problem, injuring three technicians, one of whom had to be rushed to the emergency room . According to a Google spokesman to the Cnet newspaper, the incident was unrelated to the disservice Instead, it would have been caused by an unsuccessful software update. It is the first time that a prolonged disruption by Google has also affected the search engine. Previously, there had been downtime in Google Suite, YouTube, and Google Play services in recent years.