It’s a bad day in Mountain View:
In all, it looks like a huge range of Google services were down for about an hour today. That hour crossed into business operation times in multiple markets, leading to a slight drop in pre-market trading for parent company Alphabet.
It’s also an alarming reminder of just how far Google reaches, and how many of our services — productivity, entertainment and home/utility — are tied up with a single, proprietary provider. Coincidentally, Microsoft’s Outlook is also experiencing some problems, too.
Emphasis is ours.
A good reminder, indeed, and hopefully one that spurs people and companies to leave Google behind or at least diversify who they do business with.