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Reports flooded in from Twitter on Monday evening as Google experienced a rare, widespread outage.

Searchers around the world were met with this error message for a brief period when using Google:

According to Down Detector, the outage occurred around 9:39 p.m Eastern and lasted for a little over ten minutes.

By all accounts the outage is resolved at the time of writing, though the event itself is worth documenting. It certainly didn’t go unnoticed as thousands of users took to Twitter to ask if Google is down.

Here’s a sample of some of the tweets:

Had a Google search engine error for the first time ever. The engine was totally down. It's so rare the first thing I did was come to Twitter to see if anything major is going on with the web. Conspiracy theories here we come! #google #error

— Ryan Baker (@RyanBakerSLO) August 9, 2022

me using twitter as a search engine to check if google is down pic.twitter.com/GjNRoA3WzW

— val (@omlitsari) August 9, 2022

JUST IN: Google Search is currently facing major network outages for millions of people across 40+ countries. pic.twitter.com/B5GxUIVTHw

— CryptoWhale (@CryptoWhale) August 9, 2022

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