 Google Has Been Acting Funky For The Last 5 Or So Days! |
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 Mar 25 2008, 10:56 PM
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Trap Grand Marshal Member  Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 1,134 Joined: 19-May 05 From: Mexico Member No.: 7,234  |
Wooow... I have never seen google go down. Like everyone said, it is most probably your ISP. In case it is though, you can try google in other locations or just use a different search engine in the meantime like yahoo, or msn search. Did Gmail also go down for you? I am pretty sure I was using it last night with no problems, though it could be that I am in Mexico and its a different server.
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Mar 26 2008, 12:28 AM
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Newbie [Level 1] Group: Members Posts: 19 Joined: 24-March 08 From: Michigan Member No.: 59,787 |
QUOTE(FLaKes @ Mar 25 2008, 06:56 PM)  Wooow... I have never seen google go down. Like everyone said, it is most probably your ISP. In case it is though, you can try google in other locations or just use a different search engine in the meantime like yahoo, or msn search. Did Gmail also go down for you? I am pretty sure I was using it last night with no problems, though it could be that I am in Mexico and its a different server. gmail has been working great. The problem that i was having was googe search, google spell check, I couldn't access my adsense and adword accounts. Every thing else works as it should. If it was a ISP proble, would I still be able to use every-other webpage in the world? I mean, while google was down, I resorted to yahoo and msn search. (I use search engines a lot for research) so far, so good, today! Thanks! |
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Mar 26 2008, 01:50 AM
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Privileged Member Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 572 Joined: 13-December 06 Member No.: 35,271 |
QUOTE(MrSandMan @ Mar 24 2008, 04:45 PM) 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. As you can probably tell, it's you and your Internet Service Provider (ISP). Get it sorted.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? |
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Mar 26 2008, 01:51 AM
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Privileged Member Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 575 Joined: 9-May 05 From: Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, North America, Planet Earth, Our Sun's Orbit, Milky Way Galaxy, The Universe, Beyond Member No.: 6,839 |
The idea to try a country specific Google was an ingenious idea that I don't think I would have thought of had mine gone down. At least now I will if the time ever comes. Oh, and just for a note, I use Google.ca (Canada) and haven't noticed anything wrong with it at all lately.
It could be troubles with your service provider, because I know I used to have troubles like that where at different computers, I could get to the sites that I wanted, but from my own, things would be with more down time than up it seemed. Since then my troubles ended luckily, but that was just my experience with it. |
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Mar 26 2008, 05:06 AM
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NERVE: Interception Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 530 Joined: 14-April 07 From: Holy Terra Member No.: 41,610 |
hmm... Could it be that your Internet Service Provider are using proxies? And so anyone using the Internet service provider that you are using has the same IP address and maybe one of them could of tried to "hack" google and so got their IP temporarily banned, but because that person is using your internet service provider, maybe your internet service providers' IP got blocked.
That could be the cause... |
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Mar 26 2008, 05:17 AM
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Newbie [Level 1] Group: Members Posts: 19 Joined: 24-March 08 From: Michigan Member No.: 59,787 |
I've had this ISP and same IP number for the past 4-5 years and never had a problem. It's my homes cable network and nobody has access to it. Also, if I was banned from google, then I would imagine that it'd be down all the time, not randomly through-out the day. I get that "server is down error" sometimes when I try to access google's home page.
It worked all day until about an hour ago. It started acting a bit fussy. Oh, and for some reason I was booted of gmail chat for about 5 minutes. But then it came back on. My internet is the fastest cable available in the area and when it does go down (which isn't often) it won't allow me to access any web page, and I cannot use yahoo chat when my internet goes down. Again, that is rare if the internet goes down. My internet has been working fine for all other web pages. It's just with google sometimes. I cannot concept how this could be a ISP error. Also, if my ISP was the root cause of the error, would google work sometimes and sometimes not and not load to their server? |
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Mar 26 2008, 06:33 AM
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Newbie [Level 1] Group: Members Posts: 19 Joined: 24-March 08 From: Michigan Member No.: 59,787 |
QUOTE(serverph @ Mar 25 2008, 01:57 PM) 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.Okay, google went down again giving me this error page: QUOTE Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage Most likely causes: You are not connected to the Internet. The website is encountering problems. There might be a typing error in the address. What you can try: Diagnose Connection Problems More information So I took your advice and tried all the other links you posted and they are, in fact, working.. while google.com is not working at all. Is that an ISP issue? |
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Mar 26 2008, 07:23 AM
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NERVE: Interception Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 530 Joined: 14-April 07 From: Holy Terra Member No.: 41,610 |
try accessing another webpage immediately when you com across this error, if you cannot then it is probably the ISP resetting the server or something. But if you can access another webpage then it is probably Google. Also I highly think that it is a "hacker" using your Internet Service Provider. Because it depends, Google might ban the internet service provider's proxy IP for maybe 5 minutes? and the hacker might try again!
If all else fails, why not just contact your internet service provider and ask them what is going on! |
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Mar 26 2008, 02:30 PM
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Newbie [Level 1] Group: Members Posts: 19 Joined: 24-March 08 From: Michigan Member No.: 59,787 |