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.

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?

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.

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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!