- Google users in South Africa were hit by an outage on Wednesday night.
- It lasted for around 30 minutes.
The online search giant Google and its services suffered an outage on Wednesday night.
The service monitoring platform Downdetector shows that the outage was first reported just before 19:30 on Wednesday evening, in Gauteng, Cape Town and Durban. By 20:00, Google sites were restored.
The outage seems to be specific to South Africa.
Google last suffered a global outage in mid-December, which lasted for an hour. YouTube, Gmail, Google Drive and other Google services were affected.
The outage was caused by a failure in the company’s authentication tools, The Guardian reported at the time. The tools manage how users log in to services run by both Google and third-party developers.
On Wednesday evening, South Africans expressed their frustration on social media:
?? my entire service is down and Google IS the internet.
— Karabo Lediga (@MissLed) March 3, 2021
Google went down, and we couldn’t even Google other search engines to Google with ??What a mess ??
— S. (@SollyHlaka) March 3, 2021
