31 May 2024 , 14:06
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Google is down for thousands of users worldwide, leaving them unable to use the popular search engine.
Gmail and Google News has also been affected.
Users in the UK have been hit by the outage, with the issues appearing to start around 1pm.
The problems have also been reported across the US and Australia, according to the website Down Detector.
Millions of Google searches are made every minute, while the company’s email service Gmail is thought to have more than 1.8 billion users.