Google’s Outage Was Asia’s Fault

5/15/2009

Google finally has an explanation for its giant fail whale earlier today.

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:

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