Google’s conglomerate of apps, YouTube, Gmail and Google drive have crashed for millions of users worldwide
On Monday morning, users complained it had been difficult to access most especially YouTube which temporarily asked them to connect to the internet or showed an “unavailable” note
Problems were reported mainly in Europe but also in Australia, the east coast of the USA and parts of Africa, South America and Asia.
The Dialy Mail said by 11:54am GMT, there was more than 50,000 complaints for YouTube alone with half (49 per cent) regarding issues with the website and 43 per cent pertaining to problems watching videos
Gmail had 23,000 complaints before midday and Google’s main site had a reported 19,000 complaints.
Eighty-one and 91 per cent of the issues with these sites, respectively, was to do with logging in, according to DownDetector
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