Google shuts down for 15 minutes

[Whois-Search]

MOUNTAIN VIEW -- Googling stopped for 15 minutes on Saturday. The world's leading internet search engine shut down from 6:45 to 7 p.m. eastern time, according to Google spokesman David Krane.

"It was not a hacking or a security issue," said Krane. He said the problem was related to the DNS, or Domain Name System, though Krane did not elaborate. The DNS translates domain names for computers.

"Google's global properties were unavailable for a short period of time," Krane said. "We've remedied the problem and access to Google has been restored worldwide."


On Wednesday, the company, based in Mountain View, launched its Web Accelerator service. It's intended to speed access to Web pages by offering cached or compressed copies of sites from Google's servers.

There are an estimated 200 million Google searches a day.

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[mike031]

...it was more then 15 minutes

 

[EGS]

Interesting read. I did not know about this! Was this the first time ever that Google has had...*gulp*...downtime?

Thanks for the article Whois-Search.

 

[Kishin]

I was talking to people on another fourm and someone said they did a WHOIS on google.com while it was hacked and they same "gulli" in there somewhere.
For the folks who dont know gulli is a big warez,hacking group and I would not be susprised if it was them.

 

[Dr. Domaining]

I noticed this and emailed Google about the matter. Within minutes everything was back to normal. I was wondering what happened.

Thank you for posting the information!