Gmail Outage Follows Google Docs Glitch

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 17, 2009

“More cracks have appeared in Google’s cloud infrastructure,
though the search giant has moved quickly to limit the fallout.

“Over the weekend, Google admitted a bug in its online Google
Docs services affected a “a small percentage of users” and quickly
fixed the problem. Today, the company acknowledged that an
unspecified, “small” segment of its Gmail users experienced a
service disruption for about half an hour yesterday.

“Google said the Google Docs bug caused a small percentage of
users to inadvertently share some documents. The sharing had been
limited to people with whom the account owner, or a collaborator
with sharing rights, had previously shared a document, the company
said.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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