Overview
- Google Search, which faltered Tuesday morning in India time, showed a “500 Internal Server Error,” which signals a server-side failure, to thousands of users on desktop and mobile.
- Outage tracker Downdetector logged a sharp spike to roughly 3,300–3,700 reports around 10:22–10:29 AM IST, with most complaints tied to Search and smaller shares to content loading and site access.
- Reports clustered in major Indian cities such as Delhi, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai, Jaipur, and Ahmedabad, with users in the US, UK, Canada, Germany, and France also affected.
- Users and news outlets noted issues in other Google tools, including Gmail, Gemini AI, AppSheet, and Chromecast, suggesting a broader infrastructure problem.
- Service availability improved within hours for many people, though some saw intermittent errors and Google had yet to detail a cause beyond saying engineers were working on a fix.