Based on information provided by Sky News, on the night from Friday to Saturday, all basic Google services, including search, Gmail, YouTube and Google Drive, were not accessible for about 5 minutes.
Google refused to comment on the reason for the outage in the media.
The page data Apps Status Dashboard, containing information about the functionality of the Google application, confirms the fact that on August 17, 2013, a break was registered in the operation of the web giant. However, all services were soon in operation.
Analysts in this area are already calculating the damage caused by a short-term outage in the operation of the service and Google services. According to the statistics of GoSquared, the result of stopping the Google service was a drop in world internet traffic by 40%. Along with this, an expert in the field of information technology Phil Dearson reported that the damage for the outage of Google, the Internet giant, will be about 500 thousand dollars.
