I will say Google has made strides over the past year in terms of being as transparent as they reasonably can be when they have an outage, how long they last, how many users are affected, and at least a reasonable explanation of what happened.<br>

<br>That&#39;s a far cry better than the responses (or lack thereof) from Google in the past.  It doesn&#39;t hurt that when Google goes down, the entire internet notices within seconds, of course.<br><br>-Brian<br clear="all">

-----<br>Brian Adams<br>Technical Director<br>33 Auditorium<br>Department of Theatre<br>Michigan State University<br>East Lansing, MI 48824<br><a href="http://five.sentenc.es/">http://five.sentenc.es/</a><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 6:33 PM, Richard Wiggins <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:[log in to unmask]"><a href="/cgi-bin/wa?LOGON=A3%3Dind0905%26L%3DMSUNAG%26E%3Dquoted-printable%26P%3D412001%26B%3D--0016e644dd6e8c01020469e717dc%26T%3Dtext%252Fhtml%3B%2520charset%3Dwindows-1252%26pending%3D" target="_parent" >[log in to unmask]</a></a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">

Wow.<div><br></div><div>Everything I&#39;ve read and heard indicates that Google has built a global, fault-tolerant, self-healing, low-cost file system and server cluster, designed by the best PhDs in computer science money can buy.</div>


<div><br></div><div>Someone once said &quot;Complex systems fail in complex ways.&quot;</div><div><br></div><div>/rich<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Harper, Chris <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:[log in to unmask]" target="_blank"><a href="/cgi-bin/wa?LOGON=A3%3Dind0905%26L%3DMSUNAG%26E%3Dquoted-printable%26P%3D412001%26B%3D--0016e644dd6e8c01020469e717dc%26T%3Dtext%252Fhtml%3B%2520charset%3Dwindows-1252%26pending%3D" target="_parent" >[log in to unmask]</a></a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>


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<p>Anyone notice Google and the ‘net in general was a
little slow earlier today?</p>

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<p><a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/05/14/google-says-googlefail-outages-are-over/" target="_blank">http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2009/05/14/google-says-googlefail-outages-are-over/</a></p>

<p><a href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/14/google-confirms-problems-accessing-its-services/?hp" target="_blank">http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/14/google-confirms-problems-accessing-its-services/?hp</a></p>




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<p>Just goes to show you how intertwined everything is, and Google
is right at the center.</p>

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<p><b>Christopher M. Harper</b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br>
</span><span style="font-size: 8pt;">MANAGER OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size: 8pt;">University Relations, Michigan
State University</span></p>

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