Yesterday at 03.51 Moscow time, all Google services, including search, went offline for 1-5 minutes. This is clearly seen in the monitoring service
Apps Status Dashboard . It would seem that nothing terrible - only about two minutes. However, such an event could not but reflect on other Internet sites.
The service of data collection from
GoSquared counters recorded a general decline in site traffic on the Internet by 40%. The graph clearly shows a sharp drop and then a jump in traffic:
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At the time of the disconnection of Google in Russia was a deep night, so the event went unnoticed. But in the US it was the end of the workday, the reaction of users was immediate - Twitter quickly filled with messages like “Google is not working, you can go home!”.
Google has not yet commented on the shutdown of its services for a few minutes. According to experts, this event cost the corporation more than $ 500 thousand.
Such results of just a two-minute outage make you wonder: what if it lasts an hour? Day? A week?