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What's Not Up, Docs? Google Docs Goes Titsup in Time for Friday Beers
It's not you – it's Google. The web giant's Docs cloud has fallen off the internet [theregister.co.uk], leaving US office workers eyeing up the boozer early.
The in-browser word processor is offline around the world, and returns a 502 error when accessing it. Google Drive is also struggling to stay up, it seems.
The alleged productivity suite went down around 1145 PT (1845 UTC). While peeps in Europe, Australia and elsewhere left their desks ages ago, it's not quite the weekend yet in the Americas. Perhaps Google's software has taken off early for the Columbus Day Weekend.
As hot salty tweets about the outage fell upon the web like a tropical rainstorm, the advertising goliath's status dashboard claimed everything was A-OK. It now acknowledges that engineers are looking into problems with Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, Classroom and Realtime API.
Sorry, everyone, it was me. Went to use Google Docs for the first time in 9 months yesterday, so naturally it crashed.
