Archive for February, 2009
Gmail Down
Today at 10.20 by GMT +0 mail service Gmail (gmail.com, mail.google.com) was down and still is offline. At Google, engineers are working under this issue. Thousand of users were unable to login into their gmail accounts.
Although some users told that they checked their email at Gmail using another mail clients and smartphones. So the reason is at Gmail’s website. We recieve packsfrom gmail server and tracerout is ok. So, we should wait….
Update: After two hours and half Gmail seems start working again
Good news.
Google throws over ads on radio

Google is going to throw over advertisements broadcasted by radio. 3 years ago Google bought readio media company dMarc Broadcasting. And now they declared that there was no sense to continue radio advertisement.
This will entail retirement of 40 employees. Notice, that Google has already refused to place ads inside newspapers, motivating it by world financial crisis.