Google went down earlier this week for a brief period, with Google claiming it was due to a software update. Gmail, Google Maps, and Google Images were all affected when Google's search engine went down, with thousands of people across over 40 countries reporting outages. According to a Google spokesperson, "a software update issue" led to the "briefly affected availability of Google search and Maps," but they "worked to quickly address the issue and our services are now back online." Notably, an accident had occurred only hours prior at a Google data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa, in which an "electrical incident" seriously injured three electricians working onsite. According to Google, the incident is unrelated to its outage later that day and into the next.

Source: The Guardian August 11, 2022 18:15 UTC