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Google breakdown causes panic across the internet

Accepted submission by Anonymous Coward at 2020-12-14 13:20:29 from the Lynchpin division reporting in dept.
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Google services crashed today taking Youtune and other Google services offline with a cascading effect across the internet [news.com.au]. Services hit include Discord and other third party online systems which depend on Google services to operate. This event has proven that having single entities such as Google and AWS as the backbone of the internet makes for a linchpin that can be pulled at any time.

I for one did not miss our Search Overlord.

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