Google and Gmail are down for thousands of users, mostly in the United States

Lisa EadiciccoAug 20, 2019, 00:25 IST

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Google and its popular email service Gmail experienced issues on Monday for thousands of users largely based in the United States, according to reports on social media and the website-outage firm Down Detector.

The Gmail issues appear to be impacting the East Coast near cities such as New York and Boston as well as areas on the West Coast near San Francisco and Los Angeles. Based on the live outage map available on Down Detector, it also looks like areas near Houston and Dallas in Texas also suffered outages.

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The problems with Gmail started at 10:13 a.m. ET, while the issues with Google began at 2:09 p.m. ET, according to Down Detector. At the time of writing, the website has received more than 4,000 reports from users experiencing problems with Google and Gmail.

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Google and Gmail are down for thousands of users, mostly in the United States

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