Did you realize? Yesterday, around 21-22:00 Google went down in part of Europe, including Spain. The incident didn’t even last an hour, but when an internet giant stumbles, the world shudders and this time was no exception.

So while many people didn’t even realize why they were having dinner or doing anything, many others raised their hands because they didn’t have access to services like Gmail, YouTube or the same search engine, among others. Fortunately, the outage was short and the affected areas gradually restored lost services.

What caused the downfall of Google? According to what is said, water infiltration in a data center in the Paris area, where part of its infrastructure is Google Cloud, the company’s cloud services, on which it deploys its own products. Nothing Googlers can’t master quickly.

However, what the majority of Google users in the affected area managed to resolve in a short time, it took much longer for a few less, and there are those who at this moment, 12 hours later, are still complaining of problems accessing or performing specific services.

Currently, the Google Cloud Status page maintains various alerts related to yesterday’s incident.

A peak of the Google crash recorded by Downdetector

As it could not be otherwise, if it took – again generally speaking – a short time to solve the problem, it took even less time to take its place among the news media of half the world and note the relevance of the Internet giant’s service in our lives. And more and more, especially Google.

It’s like what they say when China catches a cold, the world sneezes; because when Google stumbles, the world shakes. And that’s it Not only the company’s website was affected.: Many others, dependent in one way or another on their infrastructure or professional services, have reported problems of various kinds.

On top of all that, while Google disappeared from the map for millions of people, where were people complaining and mocking the event? On Twitter, Of course.