Google Loses Gmail on Friday – Outage, or Worse?

The cause of the outage is not yet known, and the peak woes seemed to be from about 1:55 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. EST. Outage issues were still present as of 2:45 or so, such as sending and receiving emails automatically and contacts not being accessible. Still, emails are coming in and going out, intermittently of course.

We have not seen a drop in Google stock that was directly tied to Gmail outages. The stock was dropping most of the day and has actually started to recover. Shares were down 2.25% at $1,133.94 as of 2:45 p.m. EST.

With all of the hack attacks at major systemic destinations, it is fair to wonder if this is more than a routine series of server outages. Again, the service is coming in, but it is intermittent.