SA's Google outage explained

[Kevin Lancaster]

Google outage in South Africa explained

Web Africa has explained yesterday’s brief outage that affected some SA Internet users’ ability to access Google

 

[magneto]

this is so breaking it made the world explode......
lol oh lies will catch u out...

 

[kianm]

Bing it or something, at least for searches. I've taught myself not to be 100% reliant on google's services

 

[borga]

My google dns server 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 stop working switching the router to automatic seems to have fixed that.

 

[Arthur]

People still use google?

 

[Hamster]

People still use google?

...fail

 

[Bryn]

People still use google?

Google has the best search engine, best maps, best translation facility, best image search and is responsible for Android and the Play Store. What sad life do you endure that is devoid of all these things?

 

[ph4t3]

Google has the best search engine, best maps, best translation facility, best image search and is responsible for Android and the Play Store. What sad life do you endure that is devoid of all these things?

It does indeed have these things. I find DuckDuckGo perfectly adequate as a search engine though.

 

[genetic]

People still use google?

Just so you know, there are bigger search engines than the cr@p Bing you use on your Internet Explorer home page.

 

[oldBastard]

Feck I knew I wasn't going bonkers Thursday afternoon. No wonder my clients were having mail problems. Phew now I can scrap the massive incident report and point to this article.

 

[Hamster]

I'm actually proud of myself for not noticing

 

[genetic]

I'm actually proud of myself for actually working during that period.

FTFY