AustralianIT reports in: Google plays down outage, that the search engine was unavailable in Australia for about 15 minutes yesterday morning (Australian time).
“Very briefly, for a small fraction of users, access to Google was interrupted. The issue was resolved in less than 15 minutes,” a spokeswoman for Google said. However, Google – which described the problem as a “connectivity issue” – is keeping kept a careful guard on details that might reveal the scale of the outage. It refused to disclose the cause and nature of the technical problem and said the company didn’t have any data on how many users were affected by the problem.