On Thursday morning, Google experienced an outage that affected several of its services, including YouTube, Drive, Gmail, and the search engine.
The outage was reported by over 1,500 users in India on Downdetector and over 2,000 reports for Gmail alone.
The error displayed on the Gmail sign-in page was a 502 error, indicating an unresponsive server. Users expressed their frustration on social media and used memes to lighten the mood.