Gmail outage, Princeton's reports, Google against data localization

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http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/01/23/facebook-responds-by-predicting-princetons-demise/?mod=e2fb

After a Princeton University study came out predicting Facebook's demise, Facebook has responded with its own "research" predicting the downfall of Princeton: http://on.wsj.com/M47gZu Credit: Facebook

Associated Press

After a controversial academic paper predicted the demise of Facebook, the social network has responded with a satirical prediction of the destruction of Princeton University.

On Wednesday, websites were buzzing about a provocative research paper by two Princeton graduate students that said social media sites like Facebook usually follow the same growth and decline patterns of infectious disease outbreaks.

A Facebook spokesman told The Wall Street Journal the paper, which relied on Google search query data, was “nonsense.”

On Thursday, Facebook went a step further with its own mock academic research. “Princeton will have only half its current enrollment by 2018, and by 2021 it will have no students at all,” wrote Mike Develin, a data scientist at Facebook.

Develin said he analyzed various data points, including the percentage of queries on Google Scholar matching the query “Princeton.” Develin’s research showed the percentage had dropped dramatically since 2000, an “alarming” number, he wrote.

“In keeping with the scientific principle ‘correlation equals causation,’ our research unequivocally demonstrated that Princeton may be in danger of disappearing entirely,” Develin wrote.

The paper authors could not immediately be reached.

Facebook’s posting Thursday ends on an ominous note. “While we are concerned for Princeton University, we are even more concerned about the fate of the planet–Google Trends for “air” have also been declining steadily, and our projections show that by the year 2060 there will be no air left.”

Watch a video on Facebook’s response to the controversial academic paper by Princeton University students:

Google當機50分鐘　這次換人倒楣

2014年01月25日14:58  

Google今早又當機了，這次50分鐘，比去年8月的當機5分鐘要長得多！

美國太平洋時間1/24周五上午11點，約台北時間周六淩晨3點左右，Google旗下的Gmail、Google Drive、Hangouts等在內的12項服務均突然中斷、無法連結，歐洲、美國、加拿大和印度等地用戶回報了服務當機訊息，Google官方的Gmail部落格也顯示錯誤訊息。

今早《世界新聞網》、《北美新浪》、《鉅亨網》也陸續披露此消息，Google+受到嚴重影響，相關服務包括YouTube的評論載入、行動版的Hangouts等，服務部份中斷持續近50分鐘不過，目前服務已恢復。

Gmail在許多入口網站提供的免費信箱裡，是許多人收發商務郵件的第一選擇，因此Gmail的當機成為了歐美Twitter推友們的熱門話題，《鉅亨網》就指出，美國時間周五當天上班的推友Sean Sperte說：「這意味著我們都可以休一天假了，是不是？」

當機發生20分鐘後，部分Gmail用戶曾發現服務暫時修復，但仍不時偶有中斷，直到50分鐘後才全面恢復正常服務。

Google當機並非第一次，去年8月、9月Gmail都出現過服務中斷，每每影響40~50%用戶。以時間長短來看，這次當機要比之前來得嚴重，不過因為台灣適逢周六淩晨，除了夜貓SOHO族，多數的上班族應該感受不大。（張涵君／綜合報導）

Jan 24, 2014
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Gmail Suffers an Outage

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• ROLFE WINKLER
 
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Google'sGOOG -3.13% popular Gmail service went offline just after 2 p.m. ET on Friday. Twenty minutes later, some functionality appeared to be restored though the service was still having trouble sending messages.

The disruption also appeared to affect enterprise customers that use Gmail as part of their subscription to Google Apps. Google didn’t immediately respond to questions about the cause of the disruption but said on its website that tracks the performance of its various services that is was looking into the reporters. Later, Google said most of the issues had been resolved, and that it would provide updates on the Apps Status Dashboard.

According to ComScore, Gmail had 366 million unique visitors on desktop computers world-wide in December, followed by 273 million for YahooYHOO -3.76% Mail and 242 million for Outlook.com.

Ironically, members of Google’s site reliability engineering team were scheduled to host a so-called Ask Me Anything forum with readers of the website Reddit, starting about an hour after the Gmail disruption was first reported.