Google Error

503 server error when attempting a search

[conor]

Just attempted a search on google.com and got this seeveral times :

Google
Error

Server Error
The service you requested is not available at this time.
Service error -27.

Presumably its a tempoary glitch, but I have never seen it before

[Bobby_Davro]

I just heard it on the radio....!

Working just fine for me in the UK though

[j4mes]

No good for me in the UK but fine through my proxy (Texas).

[colinirwin]

I just realised how second nature the Google toolbar is - even though I know Google's down I keep typing queries whenever a thought pops in my head.

Col

[edited by: colinirwin at 5:43 pm (utc) on July 26, 2004]

[deimosaffair]

it's the end of the world. almost four hours and still the same.... ;)

forget the mydoom stuff, actually i have proof this is a conspiracy on part of yahoo, msn and such to bring down the share price tag so they can sweep it off and get their hands on G. What? oh wait, the funny guy with the tentacles just told me i'm not supposed to tell this things he reads of people's minds..... :D

[Mikkel Svendsen]

> Im curoius as to whether googlebot is making the rounds...any one have logfile showing it?

I can confirm that Google is still crawling sites in the US.

[HitProf]

Everything seems to be working properly from the Netherlands: Opera, toolbar and IE. Checked with some friends too, same results.

I'm only loosing AdSense ads directly after a revisit of the Mediabot. Could be the same problem or another one though.

[Brett_Tabke]

I had yet to see the error, but the error was reproduced for me by searching for an email address.

[glitterball]

Seems like for the first time ever that "Google actually is broken".

Google.com not working here in the Canary Islands.
Yahoo! seems to be okay from here though.

[kremit]

AdSense appears to be working fine, albeit slow. The JS takes a few seconds to load, and the last request in my logs was at 1:20pm:

[ip] - - [26/Jul/2004:13:21:53 -0400] "GET [url] HTTP/1.1" 200 5245 "-" "Mediapartners-Google/2.1"

[sem4u]

Working OK for me in the UK now.

[basecan]

We're getting this error in Canada.

Server Error
The service you requested is not available at this time.
Service error -27.

[zafile]

I just tried a Google search in Costa Rica, Central America. I obtained:

Server Error
The service you requested is not available at this time.
Service error -27.

[ThomasB]

System failures could harm our business.

Our systems are vulnerable to damage or interruption from earthquakes, terrorist attacks, floods, fires, power loss, telecommunications failures, computer viruses, computer denial of service attacks or other attempts to harm our system, and similar events.[...]

[sec.gov...]

Looks like there are people out there that want to prove it.

We have experienced system failures in the past and may in the future. For example, in November 2003 we failed to provide web search results for approximately 20% of our traffic for a period of about 30 minutes. Any unscheduled interruption in our service puts a burden on our entire organization and would result in an immediate loss of revenue. If we experience frequent or persistent system failures on our web sites, our reputation and brand could be permanently harmed. The steps we have taken to increase the reliability and redundancy of our systems are expensive, reduce our operating margin and may not be successful in reducing the frequency or duration of unscheduled downtime.

[sec.gov...]

Seems to be not enough.

[rrl]

Wonder what this is costing G in lost revenue...

[icedowl]

Odd. I've been in and out of google.com over the last three hours and never encountered any problem from Nevada. Yahoo has been its normal sluggish self.

[ThomasB]

[money.cnn.com...]

Wonder how much money that article, linked from the CNN homepage will cost Google for their IPO. If even major, non-tech news sites report it.

[rrl]

This makes one realize how much commerce flows through Google. Think of all the businesses that are hurting today over this. How long before the Justice Department starts looking at anti-trust? Not long after the IPO is my guess for no other reason than Google controls such a huge amount of commerce. They may not find it, but the feds just don't like one company with this much control.

[jonathanleger]

Wait a minute... if Google posted a profit of $79.1 million last quarter, that's $878,888.89 per day or $36,620.37 per hour. Based on that they've lost about $109,861.11 from the past three hours.

How's that for statistics! :)

[edited by: jonathanleger at 6:10 pm (utc) on July 26, 2004]

[ThomasB]

and G is not globally down.

[AthlonInside]

I hope Google will come back with surprising SERPs.

[ogletree]

It's down in Houston just checked it. It was up an hour ago.

[jonathanleger]

Froogle is still up:

[google.com...]

It's a conspiracy for Google to sell products! ;)

[Nuttakorn]

I have tried to scan all virus by using the latest update and I have downloaded Mydoom worm remove tool and scan. I have no found any kind of those virus in my computer. But I am still cannot search through Google.com . I can access Google normally via Anonymous Services.

[Rugles]

I have not had any problems searching but our e-commerce site is unusually slow for a Monday.

[ogletree]

It does not mean you have a virus. What they are saying is that there is a virus on some peoples comupters that is causing problems with G's servers not your computer. If a light poll gets knocked down by lightning it does not mean that the lights are off at your house because lightning hit your house.

[Rugles]

and our phone sales are off today too.

[aapbe]

Worked all day here in Belgium.
Strangely enough no sales anymore after 8 AM, although Google Ads seem to work

[Nuttakorn]

Right now, I am using Iprive services for searching google. Do you know when will Google be normal?

[1milehgh80210]

Think of all the businesses that are hurting today over this. "

yeah, I was going to buy a widget, but since I could'nt find it on google today, I permanently gave up on the idea. :)

[balam]

Just hopped my way through the 95 different Google properties around the world - all fine from Canada.