Negative Blogs

Many people found Google’s search site was extremely slow or inaccessible Thursday, and other reports pointed to troubles with other properties including YouTube, Gmail, Google Analytics, Google Maps, Google Docs, AdSense, and Blogger.

Judging by a Twitter search for #googlefail, the problem was international in scope, though it wasn’t immediately clear how universal the problems were. Google didn’t immediately comment for this story, though it did confirm an earlier Google News outage that lasted about three and a half hours.

Google is central to the online lives–and livelihood–of many, and an outage shows exactly how central it’s become–and not just through its primary business, search.

“The Internet dies without Google. Can’t get to my bank Web site because it’s waiting on ‘google-analytics.com.’ This is made of lame,” said Twitter user Tadiera.