GOOGLE IS DOWN: The Great Google Outage of 2007

To nearly all Comcast cable internet customers, Google.com hasn’t worked all day today (Wednesday, September 26th, 2007).

Google has been confirmed to be not working on Comcast in Seattle, and according to various sources, Google is down across the country: Boston, New York State, and New Hampshire. In addition to google.com, other affected sites include YouTube, Google Reader, AdSense, and Google Calendar. YouTube videos that are found on other sites aren’t working either. Originally, tech support was telling people it was an issue with the Firefox browser and for some, using Internet Explorer temporarily solved the problem. This is a total clusterf***, nobody’s got the real answer, and I’m sure that when Google figures it out, they won’t tell us.

Did I mention that BlackBerries all across the US have also been experiencing outages in the last 24 hours? That makes the 3rd time for BB users in the last 6 months!

The funny thing is, Digg shows a Google outage on this day last year. What gives, Goog?

The Comcast representative I spoke to mentioned that she’d heard all about the problem, and that they’re trying to get Google to “stop blocking [them]“. Is Google really ballsy enough to block all Comcast customers? Is this all part of Google’s evil plan to take over the world?

Earlier today, I was watching Live Free or Die Hard, in which the plot centers on a national computer outage, a sort of perfect storm that makes society collapse. Kind of makes you realize how useful computers are in this age.

Anyways, the solution to the problem (of course) comes from Canada: Go to google.ca! It works like a charm! You’re welcome.

EDIT: I’ve just tried google.ca, and I’m finding it to be down now, too. Try live.com instead.

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