Fox News stated, "The outages occurred after China accused the Internet behemoth of spreading pornography among its citizens. Seems access to Google both in English and Chinese was blocked for part of Wednesday and Thursday in parts of China.
Google Responds to Thursday Morning Outages Posted by Nathania Johnson May 18, 2009 Google has responded to the outages that affected several of its services in various locations throughout the world.
Google has responded to the outages that affected several of its services in various locations throughout the world. Apparently the outages were caused by a system error, which necessitated re-routing traffic through Asia.
Microsoft's ability to attract and retain talented employees;
delays in product development and related product release schedules;
significant business investments that may not gain customer acceptance
and produce offsetting increases in revenue...
Most people with planned outages want to serve up a user-friendly error telling their users to “come back in 30 minutes” or something like that. By the way, the Google engineers I spoke with were intrigued by the idea of providing more tools that...