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\ul \ulc3 Google}})\ \uc0\u8232
\b BY KERRY LEARY \b0 \
\uc0\u8232 Did you get to work Wednesday morning, coffee in hand, and mindlessly sit down at
your computer to log into Gmail? GASP. Google wasn\'92t working?\
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\cf3 \ul \ulc3 According to Google\'92s status panel}}, Google Mail, Google Docs, Google
Drive, Google Presentations, Google Spreadsheets AND admin were down Wednesday morning.\'a0\
So what did Google users do to voice their concern? Took to Twitter, of course. {\field{\*\fldinst{HYPERLINK
"https://twitter.com/kmore/status/324499869828014080"}}{\fldrslt \cf3 \ul \ulc3 Here\'92s one of the tweets
that\'92s gaining popularity.}}\ \pard\pardeftab720\sa240
\b \cf2 \'93Yes folks. Google apps, at least Gmail, appear to be down. Do not panic. Back
away from your desk and go outside for 30 minutes.\'94
\b0 \ \pard\pardeftab720\sa240
{\field{\*\fldinst{HYPERLINK "http://www.androidcentral.com/google-apps-down-today-gmail-google-drive-admin-panel"}}{\fldrslt \cf3 \ul \ulc3 A writer for Android Central
notes,}} \b \'93The good news is that it doesn't (yet)
look like a blanket outage. Some folk shave problems, some don't. Google says the Gmail
issues were affecting 0.007% percent of users.\'94\'a0 \b0 \
.007% of users doesn\'92t seem like a lot... but for the thousands of businesses that rely
on Google for their business to stay afloat, this outage is a problem.\
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\b \cf2 \'93{\field{\*\fldinst{HYPERLINK "http://gothamist.com/2013/04/17/gmail_down_because_of_google_apps_c.php"}}{\fldrslt \cf3 \ul \ulc3 Some unfortunate individuals
are also reporting}} problems loading their "regular" Gmail\'97at press time it's unclear
if these poor souls \i even exist.\'94
\i0\b0 \ So, what is the solution? {\field{\*\fldinst{HYPERLINK
"http://lifehacker.com/5354314/how-to-access-gmail-when-its-down"}}{\fldrslt \cf3 \ul \ulc3 Lifehacker came up with some
ways around the outage.}}\
\b \'93Your best bet is to bookmark the link for the Plain HTML version of Gmail... so
you can quickly switch to this alternate mode if Gmail is giving you trouble loading. It
doesn't have all the fancy features that regular old Gmail does, but it can do the job just
fine in a pinch.\'94 \b0 \
Google says it expects to update users on the status of the outages on the admin panel
as soon as more information is available.\ }