SAN FRANCISCO: Popular Google services including Gmail and Drive were down for many users around the world on Thursday, with the US technology giant telling affected people they were 鈥渁ware of a service disruption.鈥�
Frustrated customers in countries including Australia, Japan, France and the United States complained online of the outage and tracking website DownDetector reported Google services were down in every continent.
鈥淎nyone else having issues with @gmail in Australia?鈥� one person tweeted.
Another Twitter user, in Brooklyn, New York, wrote: 鈥淣early 16 years in and this is the first time I can remember Gmail being completely down.鈥�
Google鈥檚 @Gmail Twitter feed replied to the posts with: 鈥淭hanks for reporting. We are aware of a service disruption at the moment.鈥�
The message contained a link to a Gmail service details page that told users 鈥渨e are continuing to investigate this issue,鈥� and to check back later.
As well as English, the Gmail Twitter feed replied to people in French, Japanese, Portuguese and German.
Responding to an AFP enquiry, Google said to refer to the G Suite Dashboard for status updates.