Google is down for thousands of people, leaving many unable to use the search engine or access their emails.
The disruption began just after 8am, according to online outage tracker DownDetector, with people in the UK, US, Europe, Turkey and Russia affected.
Issues with almost all Google services, including Gmail, Google Maps, Google Drive and the Chrome browser, have been flagged.
YouTube, owned by Google, is also inaccessible to hundreds.
Gmail users in Bulgaria, Romania, and Greece say they cannot send or receive emails.
Google Maps is failing to load map data, search for locations or calculate routes, while Google Drive is not letting users access their documents.
One user said: ‘Google is down in my country and I’m laughing at how many things we cannot do at work at the moment.’
Another said: ‘Google services and some international traffic seemingly “down”. Time to go outside. :)’
Other Google users have said they can use the browser and search engine, but websites load slowly.
People have received the message ‘5xx server error’, which indicates a problem on Google’s end, not with the user’s internet connection.
Google Cloud’s health status page is reporting no issues worldwide.
Turkey has been one of the most impacted countries in the outage, which began roughly an hour before elsewhere, according to the nation’s internet censorship agency, the Freedom of Expression Association.
Turkish Deputy Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Omer Fatih Sayan said on X that officials are monitoring the disruption.
He added: ‘These outages demonstrate the critical importance of domestic and national products and software.
‘For this reason, we have worked extensively to increase the local content ratio in both the software and hardware components of 5G.’
Google has been approached for comment.
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