Big Problems When Google Went Down For 15 Minutes

JAKARTA - Still early in 2021, Google has experienced crashes several times. Although it didn't take long and immediately recovered, it had a big impact on its users.

The Downdetector page reported that Google services went down on Thursday, February 4, at around 13.23 pm local time and the peak was at 13.53 pm local time. The interruption lasted for 15 minutes and Google services gradually returned to normal.

Although the Downdetector site indicates the problem occurs in the United States (US). However, quite a number of users in Indonesia, Jakarta and Surabaya have complained about the Google service error.

Many users have complained about not being able to use Gmail and other Google products. Some of them experienced Google Search that was slow to load, some said that video playback on YouTube was suddenly buffering.

Although Google services can be accessed again now, there is no official explanation why Google had collapsed. Previously, Google had also collapsed on January 6, 2021.

This means that Google has been down twice this year. For the record, the downfall of Google services has occurred five times throughout 2020.