Google Search back online after showing ‘server error’ message for thousands of users

Google was down for thousands of users in India on Tuesday, with social media platforms flooded with complaints about not being able to access the popular search engine. Over 3,300 complaints were registered on outage tracking platform Downdetector at around 10:23 am IST.

Around 57% of complaints on Downdetector were related to Search, while 28% of users said content was not loading properly. Another 11% reported issues with the website itself.

However, does not seem limited to India with reports surfacing from various parts of the world including the United States, United Kingdom, other parts of Europe, Philippines and other areas.

As of writing this article, Google has not issued a formal “Post-Mortem” or blog post explaining the root cause of the issue. However, given that the outage was very brief it is likely that we would get an official explanation from the search giant.

Reports about the Google outage saw a sudden spike on Tuesday morning, according to Downdetector data.

Netizens also shared the error message they encountered while trying to access Google, which stated: “Server Error. We’re sorry but it appears that there has been an internal server error while processing your request. Our engineers have been notified and are working to resolve the issue. Please try again later.”

Since the initial outage, there has been a sharp drown on the number of complaints filed on Downdetector which suggests that the search giant is back once again.

Netizens react to Google outage:

“I can’t believe I’m saying this but Google dot com is actually down. I don’t remember the last time it happened. We are seeing a new rise of these events and I guess vibe coding to blame?” wrote one user in a post on X

“man a google outage is rare.the 4 horsemen are incoming” wrote another user

“First time I’ve seen Google go down in a very, very long time. Honestly impressive track record.” a user noted on Reddit

“I experienced it first about 10 mins ago but only for specific searches (when clicking those suggested searches that are linked to tv shows/books).Now it’s affecting all my searches” added yet another user