What happens when you can no longer ‘Google it’

Several millions of users faced issues on Monday when a blackout at Google saw almost all of their services – Gmail, Maps, Youtube, Meet, and many others – disrupted. The blackout, which lasted for around three-quarters of an hour, had users across the world frustrated, with the outage preventing users from logging into their respective Google accounts.

Reports of disruptions on Gmail were reported on Tuesday as well, lasting for about 2.5 hours, following which services were restored.

The recent disruptions to the world’s largest cloud-based giant have brought to light users’ overreliance on the platform’s services, and with most using the Google search engine and browser, Google Chrome, they were left clueless when looking for alternate options.