Google’s Outage Caused by Accidental Reroute Through Asia
May 14, 2009 by
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Erick Schonfeld submits:
Google finally has an explanation for its giant fail whale earlier Thursday. It was Asia’s fault. For some reason, Google re-routed some of its traffic to Asia and that caused a massive traffic jam. The company says about 14 percent of users were affected, and everything is back to normal now. From the Google Blog: