Visitors to the Google News website saw the image of an upside-down ice cream cone that said, “Uh-oh, something went wrong. Please try again.” The outage was felt globally and while it appears that things are back to normal and have been since 9:50 am EDT, as recently as 11:30 am, a user in Florida was still insisting on DownDetector that the app was not working. Here in Massachusetts, the app is working perfectly.
Google News was down earlier today. Image credit-Future
OpenAI saw the number of complaints submitted to DownDetector rise sharply from 3 at 7:01 am EDT to 66 by 12:16 pm EDT. A DownDetector and ChatGPT user named Lisa McCoskey wrote, “No responses. Stuck on gray upload button, no matter what prompts are used.” Another comment said, “It won’t let me ask questions or make stories, and is stuck with the gray button.” Others complained about the gray button and said that they couldn’t use the app.
