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Google blames Gmail, YouTube outage on error in user ID system

19/12/2020 06:20 PM | Click to read full article

Google diagnosed a widespread outage that knocked out major services earlier this week, such as Gmail and YouTube, as a mistake with its system for identifying people online.

Alphabet Inc.’s Google has several tools that enable it to verify and track logged-in users. In October, the company began moving those tools to a new file storage system, and in the process misreported portions of the data. That caused several of its services to go down for 47 minutes Monday morning.

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