Is Google down? Widespread outages reported across APAC, search broken for many users

Date:
Tue, 12 May 2026 07:51:25 +0000

Description:
Outage tracker sites Downdetector and IsDown have collected thousands of user reports from mid-afternoon Tuesday, Sydney time though the search giant has yet to confirm any issues.

FULL STORY ======================================================================Copy link Facebook X Whatsapp Reddit Pinterest Flipboard Threads Email Share this article 0 Join the conversation Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Newsletter Subscribe to our newsletter If youre an APAC resident and youve found Google services intermittently glitchy all afternoon, it isnt
just you thousands of users have flocked to outage-tracking sites like Downdetector and IsDown.app to report problems with the search giant,
starting around 5:30am BST / 12:30am EDT / 2:30pm AEST on May 12.

Downdetector received as many as 6,625 reports from Australia , specifically relating to search, content not loading and the Google.com website. IsDown also received reports from India, the Philippines, New Zealand and Malaysia. There were also a handful of reports from the US and UK , though its unclear if this was due to the time difference (being after midnight in the US and
and early morning in the UK) and the smaller number of online denizens that entails. Ive personally experienced the same issues all afternoon, alongside the rest of the TechRadar Australia team and other local colleagues, with searches on Google displaying an error message that reads: You may like YouTube was down here's what caused the huge global outage ChatGPT was down for many as OpenAI says it's 'monitoring the recovery' X was down again here's what happened in its latest outage

Server Error
We're sorry but it appears that there has been an internal server error while processing your request. Our engineers have been notified and are working to resolve the issue.
Please try again later. (Image credit: Future | Nico Arboleda) Google has yet to confirm the outage in its Workspace Status Dashboard as of 8:00am BST / 3:00am EDT / 5:00pm AEST, which still says No Incidents. Weve contacted
Google Australia and New Zealand for comment, but had not yet received a response as of 5:45PM AEST.

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