It was like the equivalent of a snow day that went bust ... After Google services appeared to go offline early Monday, putting online classrooms into question, the platform was back up and running by 8 a..m. Monday.
Good news, kids: It was just in time for school to re-start.
Developing this morning, several Google services appear to be suffering outages, with widespread issues hitting Gmail, YouTube, Drive and Hangouts.
An error on Gmail reads: "We're sorry, but your account is temporarily unavailable. We apologize for the inconvenience and suggest trying again in a few minutes." YouTube is also offline, with a warning that now reads: "Something went wrong..."
According to DownDetector -- a platform that tracks reports about outages in real-time --the Google software problems appear to be taking place worldwide ... but seemed to be most prevalent in Europe and along the east coast of America.
There's no word yet on what caused the outage or how it was fixed.
