The very popular search engine Google and several of its websites and features experienced a brief outage around 6:30 p.m. EST on October 9, 2009.
The site was restored after a short time.
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Fast Facts
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Google and its member sites went down on October 9, 2009
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Outage was brief
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Occurred around 6:30 p.m. EST
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Google.com, Google Maps and other services were affected
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Services restored after a short time
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Previous incident saw Gmail go down, among other services
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Stock Symbol
GOOG (NASDAQ)
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Annual revenue (2007)
$16.594 billion (United States)
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Founders
Sergey Brin and Larry Page
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Year established
1998
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Phone
(650) 330-0100
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HQ
Mountain View, California
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Fact:
Google named in a 2009 Time Magazine article as one of ten U.S. companies not likely to experience layoffsTime Magazine: Ten American Companies That Won't Cut Jobs (February 20, 2009)
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On February 4, 2009, Google introduced Google Latitude, an add-on feature to Google Maps that uses GPS tracking to allow users to see where their contacts are on a map via a smartphoneCBS News: Google Offers "Latitude" To Track People (February 4, 2009)
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On February 24, 2009, Google launched a new tool bar for Internet Explorer that allows the user to search without opening the browserCNET: New Google toolbar for IE includes desktop search (February 24, 2009)
