The world’s largest search engine, Google, was temporarily inaccessible on Thursday. Users were also unable to access YouTube, Gmail, and other services. Access was restored after about one hour.
Google, founded on September 4, 1998, went down on its birthday. While searches could be initiated, no results were displayed. Google services failed to load, and pages froze.
Reports indicated that around ten countries were affected, including Turkey. In Europe, outages impacted Google’s parent company Alphabet, with disruptions in both search and YouTube services. Spotify also experienced issues on its desktop website; songs appeared to play on the mobile app, but no sound was heard.
According to the monitoring platform “DownForEveryoneOrJustMe (DFEJM),” there was no global Google outage, but users in Turkey, Bulgaria, and Albania were among those affected.
After about an hour, at 10:57 a.m. local Turkish time, access to Google and YouTube was restored. An interactive map by StatusGator showed that most outage reports came from Turkey, Bulgaria, and Germany, but confirmed that it was not a worldwide disruption.
