Google's widely used free email service was disrupted, with the extent of the problem yet to be disclosed
SAN FRANCISCO: Google Inc suffered a service outage yesterday that briefly took down Gmail, the Internet email service used by hundreds of millions of people and many businesses across the globe.
Google, which first acknowledged the outage at 11.12am Pacific Time (19.12 GMT), said roughly one hour later that service had been restored for some users and it expected “a resolution for all users in the near future.”
It remained unclear what triggered the outage, which affected users in at least India, Britain and the United States and prompted a stream of complaints on Twitter from users in many more countries.
