Gmail Outage Causes Service To Be Down

However, I also learned from twitter that people are able to check their Gmail through iGoogle despite Gmail outage. PadawanWriter tweets to @Velourian "I am able to check it but using iGoogle, not gmail.com."

This has raised a very interesting question. Bextastic wonders if Gmail outage is to increase the use of iGoogle, and you know once you are hooked up to it, you keep use it. He or she tweets "does anyone think gmail did this just to boost the use of iGoogle?" I don't think so, because Gmail outage and the service being down may seriously hurt Google's email business which has become a major part of it's revenue generating service through showing contextually targeted advertising.

Actually Google posted a Gmail status update. On its Apps Status Dashboard Google wrote "We are continuing to investigate this issue. We will provide an update by September 1, 2009 5:16:00 PM UTC-4 detailing when we expect to resolve the problem."

Users can access their email via IMAP or POP.

Gmail outage has left millions of users nationwide to be without email communications. It seems that Gmail is not down nationwide affecting all the users, but according to Google to "majority of users."

So keep checking that page for Gmail status update on outage. In the meanwhile use our IMAP or POP or, as some have tweeted, your iGoogle.

Written by Armen Hareyan