Google isn't down, but there's some DNS problem involving Comcast. Read more at UniversalHub.

Thanks. This is very annoying. I am indeed on Comcast here at my office...Verizon FiOS at home, though (which rocks...so far...by the way).

It ain't Google. I use a bunch of their stuff heavily -- Mail, Calendar, Groups, Maps. Oh, yeah. Almost forgot -- Search too.

No problems all day.

Occasionally one of G's services (Mail) will spaz out for a while, but it comes back up pretty quick. G built their network assuming unreliable hardware, so there's a lot of redundancy.

They build their servers themselves using Velcro to hold the disk drives -- faster and cheaper than dealing with screws or other mechanisms like the sleds or holders some server manufacturers use for hot-swapping. They achieve robustness and availability with clever, distributed software monitors what's going on and arranges for load-balancing and logically replaces failing servers with other hardware. Data is replicated data all over the place in their home-brew distributed file system. Word has it there's so much data replication, that they don't need to do the backup drill.

G puts a lot of "secret sauce" in their sandwiches. Very unlikely that Google itself would be down. Without following the link Ron Newman gave, I'd say that Comcast's DNS problem is a lot more plausible.

Yes Google is down for me too.
I guess some hardware of them is broken at the moment.

Thank you for sharing this story with me !