Anyone else notice the problem? Seems like 55 minutes out of every hour throught-out the day Google has been down, cannot connect to their server at all. Search engines are not working, spell check isn't working, can't access my adsense and analytics accounts.

This is getting old. I did a search on Yahoo! (because google was down) to see if there were any other user complaints. I didn't find any. I have 3 computers in my home and all three are having the same issue with google.

Anyone else notice anything funky with Google?

Sounds like your ISP is playing a prank on you I doubt that google of all companies would be having any problems. Imagine the amount of backup servers they've got running? I haven't found any problems with it, and as you said you had no problems connecting to yahoo, so it just sounds like there may be some issues with your connection or your isp... Quite odd...

hmm well i didn't notice that that i guess it's working fine with me here.. yeah maybe it's possible i hit google at that time when it's up by the way it's might be possible they are upgrading their server, hardware or their seach engine. anyways so far it's working fine with me if i get any problem i'll post here.

Yeah I believe it is your ISP that could be doing the downtime, because it would have to take a lot of queries to shutdown google like that all at once. When you see google go down, open a new window and see if another website shows up at all, and if it doesn't then it is your ISP connection and not the site themselves.

I don't know how that would work if it was my ISP. Because it only does it with google. I can access anything else known to mankind but google. sometimes google works for me, but 75% of the time it is down.

I have resorted to using Yahoo and MSN search, which isn't that bad actually. Now that I use them, I am beginning to like them more an more.

Yeah, it's just odd that if it is my ISP, seems like other functions would be giving fits as well.

maybe it would be a good idea for MrSandMan to also try country-specific google. google has established local-google versions for (some, or all... not sure) countries. CANADA has http://www.google.ca/, PHILIPPINES has http://www.google.com.ph/, INDIA has http://www.google.co.in/, FRANCE has http://www.google.fr/, and SENEGAL has http://www.google.sn/ for examples. what happens for local residents of countries when they access google.com is they get redirected to their country-specific google. i'm guessing these are mirrors, and is only established for each country for speed-in-searching purposes. instead of getting routed all over the world to the main google servers, they get served with the mirrors. they practically will have the same results, wherever you are in the world, i would hope.

so since you're in michigan, i would bet you will have access to the main google.com servers in the USA. but, if you're having trouble with your searches via google.com, try the sample alternatives above. these will also provide you with google search. if you're having problems with the local languages used for the alternatives above, you can always make them appear in english (option to do this on the right-most corner of the bottom of the google page).

it's a workaround, but it's better than no google at all, until you can figure out what's wrong on your end for having this "funky" experience of yours with google. i rarely use yahoo (only for my yahoogroups, and not searches), and i never use MSN. good luck.

No I haven't noticed it
But its really unlike with google
Well it can happen because everyone knows anyone who establishes a net connection for the first time likes to go to google to make a search
so it might be due to increasing traffic or a some kind of server problem.

I advice you to first ask your fiends on the internet if they are having problems such as yours because google is one of the most big and prosperous companies on the internet and outside in real life so, contact your isp or check your pc for virus, trojans, worms and so on.

Most likely is your isp but, it can also be true what you say, perhaps to your country only, but it is unlikely, very indeed.

This post has been edited by Lyon2: Mar 25 2008, 06:57 PM

I don't have any friends

Google has been working good today. last night it went down for hours. It was still down at 3am when I went to bed. However, today it's working great.

Very odd, indeed!