Pascal Arogorn Ibe
The Google- owned family of apps has crashed for thousands of users worldwide.
This includes Gmail, Google Drive, Google Sheets and YouTube as well as the main search engine .
Outage tracker site DownDetecter clocked tens of thousands of users reporting issues with the sites around 11:40am .
Problems were reported mainly in Europe but also in Australia , the east coast of the USA and parts of Africa , South America and Asia .
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.
Unlike other tech firms like Facebook , outages are rare at Google, DailyMail reports .
By 11:54am , there was more than 50, 000 complaints for YouTube alone . with half ( 49 per cent) regarding issues with 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 .
Other affected sites includes Google Meet , Hangouts and the Play Store as well as the Pokemon Go game, which is made by Niantic , another Google-owned company.
It appears the outage is not uniform, with some users reporting a ‘ 400 error message ’ while it is working fine for others .
However, a quick test at the London office of MailOnline reveals, Sheets, Gmail and YouTube are offline .
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