People around the world were reminded how central Google is to life in 2022 when, for a brief time, Google Search went down in several countries. Other services, like Google Maps and Gmail, were affected too.
Reports of an outage started flowing into DownDetector, a website that monitors such service disruptions, around 6:11 p.m. PT, peaking 30 minutes later before subsiding. The outage was experienced in dozens of nations around the world, from Portugal to Pakistan.
Instead of answers and helpful links, people who tried to use…
