Google News site goes down briefly

10.01.2011
Google suffered from some downtime Monday afternoon.

Google News, the company's automated news aggregator, around 4:20 p.m. Monday. Users from the East Coast to the West Coast and Canada reported that the site was unavailable for at least half an hour.

When users try to access the Google News service, they got a "server error" message.

did not respond to requests for comment about the site outage.

Users were quick to note the outage and vent their frustrations about it on . A user, awilbert, tweeted, "Google News looks like it's down & suddenly I feel all disconnected from the world."

Another, mme_hardy, added: "I want my Google News back. Waaah."