Is it Just Me, or is Google Having Issues This Weekend?

September 9th, 2007

Is it Just Me, or is Google Having Issues This Weekend?

I know that there was planned adsense maintenance yesterday, but all weekend, I’ve been having issues getting to numerous Google sites. Adsense ads have been flaky at best. The URL, pagead2.googlesyndication.com has been timing out, not just on my site but on other sites. This, in turn, has caused some slow page load times. The sidebar has been most affected. This isn’t so bad, but news.google.com is not working and I tried images.google.com, which returned links, but no images.

I’ve tried looking around for some information – groups.google.com mostly as news.google.com doesn’t seem to be working. Not that it’s the end of the world or anything. Having Google not working is far from having any real problems. I guess I’ve just grown to depend too much on the big G?

I first thought that perhaps it was my computer. After all, I haven’t rebooted in days. But the same problems are occurring on other machines. My next thought was that maybe it was my ISP. I get an error 500 when I try to sign into their site. But I ssh’d into Dreamhost (where my websites are hosted) and used the text browser, Lynx. It also would not go to news.google.com. In fact, after 5 minutes of waiting, I gave up waiting any longer.

So the big Internet Crash of 2007 has perhaps finally occurred? Maybe the “scheduled Google Adsense maintenance” had some adverse impacts.

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