Gmail, YouTube ... A massive outage affected Google services

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YouTube, Gmail, Drive, Hangouts, Google Play… If at midday, you tried to connect to a Google service, in vain, that's normal.

Finally, so to speak.

At least you weren't alone.

Indeed, a massive blackout affected the American giant, according to reports on social networks or specialized sites such as Downdetector.

Google indicates on its dashboard accessible online that all its services are concerned, for "the majority of users".

On Twitter, this outage became the most discussed topic, via the #YouTubeDown and #GoogleDown hasstags.

At 1:30 p.m., everything seems to be back to normal.

It remains to be seen what happened.

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