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Google Services Hit by Outages

• By
• Rolfe Winkler
• CONNECT

Thumbs were getting a brief rest Monday as several GoogleGOOG +1.65% services were hit with disruptions.

Google’s instant-messaging tool Hangouts suffered an outage, while its spreadsheet app Sheets and another instant-messaging service, Google Talk, also experienced disruptions, according to the company’s status dashboard.
The Hangouts outage may have the widest impact, since the app now powers text messaging on many of the latest Android devices. People who use the Google Nexus 5, for example, have been struggling to send texts since the first outages were reported around 9 a.m. Pacific Time. (There’s an easy workaround: Download another messaging app like WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger.)
The disruptions are Google’s first since Gmail ran into trouble Feb. 25. A larger range of Google services went down on Feb. 20 and Jan. 24. Google’s email archiving and security service Postini Services has seen frequent disruptions over the past month, according to the company’s apps dashboard.
As of 11:15 a.m. PT, Google had posted messages saying Hangouts, Talk and Sheets service had been restored for “some users” and the company expects the problems to be fixed for everyone “in the near future.”