Errrrrr...Google?

Can't get it to load....No problem with any other sites, but Firefox
tells me that Google cannot be found....

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Fat Sam wrote:
> Can't get it to load....No problem with any other sites, but Firefox

I've just noticed the same thing when Adsense adverts weren't appearing
on some pages I was editting. I thought it might be my connection, but
obviously not! :s

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robert blake wrote:
> Fat Sam <janetandsam@beeteeinternet.co.uk> wrote in news:3e4v6kF18auiU1
> @individual.net:
>
>
>>Can't get it to load....No problem with any other sites, but Firefox
>>tells me that Google cannot be found....
>>
>
>
>
> my home page has been google.com for donkeys years
>
> but in the past 3 or 4 months, the .com version ain't available, and les
> Britishers are automatically sent to google.co.uk
>
> i have found the .co.uk down on a number of occasions...so much so that I
> even thought of writing to google and telling them to get their head out of
> their arse.

Alas, they seem to be going the saem way that many large companies
go....They get so large that they forget about the public, without which
their product would be worthless....

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Fat Sam <janetandsam@beeteeinternet.co.uk> wrote in news:3e4v6kF18auiU1
@individual.net:

> Can't get it to load....No problem with any other sites, but Firefox
> tells me that Google cannot be found....
>

There is a problem with their DNS servers. We just announced it to our
users.

> Sat May 7 16:03:41 PDT 2005 -- Google outage. Google is experiencing
> trouble with their DNS. Folks can still reach Google by IP address at
> the following link: http://216.239.39.99/
> We'll try to find out what happened.


Gandalf Parker

Fat Sam <janetandsam@beeteeinternet.co.uk> wrote in
news:3e52uaF18r52U1@individual.net:

>
>>
>> i have found the .co.uk down on a number of occasions...so much so
>> that I even thought of writing to google and telling them to get
>> their head out of their arse.
>
> Alas, they seem to be going the saem way that many large companies
> go....They get so large that they forget about the public, without
> which their product would be worthless....
>


very true

i was giving off today about the way google now displays it's newsgroups

you couldn't have stuck a needle in a haystack of ideas and come up with a
much worse design

Jake Frederick wrote:

> Same here! Google is down? This is some kind of international crisis isnt
> it!

> "Dylan Parry" <usenet@dylanparry.com> wrote in message
> news:3e4vigF18jupU1@individual.net...
>> Fat Sam wrote:
>> > Can't get it to load....No problem with any other sites, but Firefox

>> I've just noticed the same thing when Adsense adverts weren't appearing
>> on some pages I was editting. I thought it might be my connection, but
>> obviously not! :s

[top posting corrected]

> Same here! Google is down? This is some kind of international crisis isnt
> it!

Actually, it *was* international in scope. I saw reports on this from
both sides of the pond.

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robert blake wrote:

> Fat Sam <janetandsam@beeteeinternet.co.uk> wrote in
> news:3e52uaF18r52U1@individual.net:

>>> i have found the .co.uk down on a number of occasions...so much so
>>> that I even thought of writing to google and telling them to get
>>> their head out of their arse.

>> Alas, they seem to be going the saem way that many large companies
>> go....They get so large that they forget about the public, without
>> which their product would be worthless....

> very true

> i was giving off today about the way google now displays it's newsgroups

> you couldn't have stuck a needle in a haystack of ideas and come up with a
> much worse design

If I've posted these before, here, excuse the duplication. As of
yesterday, these were still using the old interface.

http://groups.google.ru/grphp?hl=en
http://groups.google.no/grphp?hl=en
http://groups.google.dk/grphp?hl=en
http://groups.google.fi/grphp?hl=en
http://groups.google.se/grphp?hl=en

It looks like .ca and .co.uk went beta at the same time.

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