Google’s Gmail service suffers outage for second day in a row

Google said Gmail wasn’t working properly for a “significant subset” of users, the second consecutive day in which one of the internet giant’s most popular services has been stymied by technical problems.

The Alphabet Inc. company said service had been restored for some users at 5:44 p.m. in New York Tuesday, and it expected the email system to be back to normal for all users in the “near future.” Google first reported the problem at 4:29 p.m., according to its status page. More than 17,000 people had reported Gmail issues to the website DownDetector, which compiles user-reported website and mobile network errors.

“The affected users are able to access Gmail, but are seeing error messages, high latency, and/or other unexpected behavior,” Google said on its website.