GOOGLE experienced a brief outage that has caused disruption to several other services, such as YouTube, Gmail and Google Meet.
It’s understood that Virgin Media and BT internet users have also been affected.
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Outage site Downdetector has registered thousands of reports for issues with YouTube and Google.
Affected services are largely back online, though some users are still experiencing issues.
People have flocked to social media to see whether others were having problems with accessing Google services.
“I just tried to Google [whether] Google is down,” one user wrote on X (formerly Twitter).
With Gmail out of action for many users, some have joked online about talking the rest of the day off.
“Since @Gmail is down, does that mean I get to take off work early?,” one user asked.
Another noted: “Half of corporate America on [X] liking each others tweets about Gmail being down cause it’s not like we can work right now!”
