I actually have seen Google down once, I might even have a screenshot. An immediate F5 (possibly after the screenshot) showed them back up. I'm not sure if it was my local Google office down (Israel), but the message was in English.
Google has had a couple worldwide outages (most recently was about 2 years ago if memory serves). That's not "maintenance" per say, it's an emergency crisis outage. Downtime is definitely not always "maintenance".
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I actually have seen Google down once, I might even have a screenshot. An immediate F5 (possibly after the screenshot) showed them back up. I'm not sure if it was my local Google office down (Israel), but the message was in English.
Google is so big some % of it is always down. Just low chances to hit it, and if you do a reload and you will hit another server.
Google has had a couple worldwide outages (most recently was about 2 years ago if memory serves). That's not "maintenance" per say, it's an emergency crisis outage. Downtime is definitely not always "maintenance".