on August 12th Google faced a massive outage affecting services like Gmail YouTube and Google search users from the US UK Europe Asia and South America reported issues down detector showed major problems in cities like Los Angeles and New York in the US 57% of the issues were related to search 31% to the website and 11% to Google Drive social media buzzed with complaints and humorous takes on the situation the outage disrupted workspaces globally with many users unable to access essential Services Google acknowledged the issue and worked on resolving it stay tuned for updates