YouTube, Google and Gmail CRASH worldwide: Monday just got a whole lot worse with millions of workers frustrated by computer issues

Google's websites are some of the most popular in the world, with its video-streaming site YouTube frequented by more than two billion...

Google's websites are some of the most popular in the world, with its video-streaming site YouTube frequented by more than two billion people every month.  Gmail meanwhile is the world’s most popular email platform with other 1.5 billion users.  Unlike other tech firms like Facebook, outages are rare at Google, and there is no explanation for the outage.  By 11:54am GMT there was more than 50,000 complaints for YouTube alone, with half (49 per cent) regarding 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.  MailOnline has approached Google for comment. 

YouTube's 'TeamYouTube' Twitter account said: 'We are aware that many of you are having issues accessing YouTube right now – our team is aware and looking into it. We'll update you here as soon as we have more news.'  The number of reports spiked at midday before  rapidly dropping to around their normal level at 1pm GMT.  Other affected sites included Google Meet, Hangouts and the Play Store as well as the Pokemon Go game, which is made by Niantic, another Google-owned company.   Google's online dashboard that tracks the status of all its services reveals the problem is ubiquitous across all Google services.

YouTube, Gmail, Meet and other popular Google apps and services may be facing an outage in India. The information comes courtesy of social media reports where many users are posting about being unable to access any services on a number of Google apps. This coincides with reports on website and server outage tracker Downdetector, which also states that there is a clear spike in the number of reports on a possible server outage for Google India, from around 5PM IST. Google is yet to confirm any server outage, or publish information regarding why its services may not be working right now. New Delhi: The online video-sharing platform YouTube and the free email service developed by Google, Gmail, services crashed for users globally on Monday (December 14, 2020) afternoon, resulting in netizens bringing in their memes. One of the netizens said, "Looks like they have rejected humanity," after YouTube browser showed a monkey with a message "Something went wrong..." YouTube also took note of the situation and said, "We are aware that many of you are having issues accessing YouTube right now – our team is aware and looking into it. We'll update you here as soon as we have more news. The services reportedly went down around 5 PM IST and haven't been restored till 5:50 PM. Google Play Store and Google Docs were also down. #YouTubeDOWN, #Gmail and #googledown were all trending on Twitter.