Is Criticism Of Googles Outages Unfair?
Is Criticism Of Google’s Outages Unfair? Today, widespread application outages are a new experience and make news. Someday we may become used to them. Give Google a break: Statistics show its reliability to actually be very good. It’s the media that makes a big deal of Gmail and Gnews outages, not users. 400)this.width=400″ src=”http://images.pcworld.com//news/graphics/171350-google-gmail-outage-thumb_original.jpg” align=”” alt=”” border=”0″>That is what several readers told me in response to yesterday’s post concerning recent problems with the two services. Their authors have a point: The actual amount of downtime is pretty small. And a news service outage isn’t the same as losing access to your hosted e-mail. As one reader put it, “Can’t you find