galexcd

Mar 24 2008, 05:09 PM

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...

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slave

Mar 24 2008, 05:10 PM

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.

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serverph

Mar 25 2008, 05:57 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.

 

 

 

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musicmaza

Mar 25 2008, 06:54 PM

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.

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MrSandMan

Mar 25 2008, 09:17 PM

QUOTE(Lyon2 @ Mar 25 2008, 02:55 PM)

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.

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!

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MrSandMan

Mar 27 2008, 01:51 AM

QUOTE(Absolute Zer0 @ Mar 26 2008, 08:26 PM)

Google works fine for me, always has. I've been using it a lot lately and I've had no problems with it, it isn't even any slower than usual. Sounds lie your ISP, computer, or web browser is to blame for it.

I think it's safe to assume this is wrong since I run 3 different PCs, 3 different web browsers, and everything else on the net works, including every google search website except for google.com.

I suspect that google runs different servers for different regions?

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Absolute Zer0

Mar 27 2008, 12:26 AM

Google works fine for me, always has. I've been using it a lot lately and I've had no problems with it, it isn't even any slower than usual. Sounds lie your ISP, computer, or web browser is to blame for it.

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MrSandMan

Mar 26 2008, 11:39 PM

QUOTE(jlhaslip @ Mar 26 2008, 11:12 AM)

What happens if you simply hit "try again" (or an equivalent) in your browser after getting that message?

It fails. I cannot even use spell check when google.com goes down.

I've been using google.ca with no problems.

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galexcd

Mar 26 2008, 03:38 PM

Ok this is very, very strange... but ever since I've read this post, I've been having similar issues. At first I almost didn't believe that something like that was possible, but google has been very, very slow for me recently. Every other site just zips right through, but when I go to google, especially during times of high internet usage like on weekends and nights, it takes about 30 seconds to load, (which is a lot, trust me). And no, I'm not on cable, I'm on DSL, so it shouldn't be affected on how many people in my area are surfing the net. And It only applies to google. No other site seems to be slowing down... How odd.

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jlhaslip

Mar 26 2008, 03:12 PM

What happens if you simply hit "try again" (or an equivalent) in your browser after getting that message?

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