Imagine if Google one day up and decided to call it quits, turning off its servers and getting out of the online game altogether. Kind of a scary thought when you consider just how dependent we've become on Google's services, from search to word processing, and especially to Gmail. We don't foresee the fat cats at Google ever making such a drastic decision, but it is pause for thought for around 150,000 Gmail account holders who woke up this morning to find that their email, attachments, and Google Chat logs had vanished. What the Gmail happened? We're not sure, and neither is Google. According to Google's Apps Status Dashboard, the search giant first noticed the glitch late afternoon Sunday. By 4:20 PM, Google was reporting that "the issue affects less than 0.29 percent of the Google Mail users," a number that was reduced to 0.08 percent by 10:40 PM. A day later and Google still doesn't seem to know exactly what's going on, or at least isn't willing to share just yet.
"Our team is continuing to investigate this issue. We will provide an update by February 28, 2011 10:10:00 AM UTC-5 with more information about this problem. Thank you for your patience," the latest entry in Google's Apps Status Dashboard reads. The same message has been repeated four times this morning, with only the time of the next update being changed.
Is the glitch affecting your Gmail account? source
"Our team is continuing to investigate this issue. We will provide an update by February 28, 2011 10:10:00 AM UTC-5 with more information about this problem. Thank you for your patience," the latest entry in Google's Apps Status Dashboard reads. The same message has been repeated four times this morning, with only the time of the next update being changed.
Is the glitch affecting your Gmail account? source
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