Google users hit by mail outage

Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7907583.stm

This one even has my girlfriend bugging me "Does it work for you?". No it doesn't

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Business and consumer users of Google's popular e-mail service were hit by an outage on Tuesday.

The service went offline at 0930 GMT with Google saying it was "working hard to resolve this problem".

Professional users of Google mail are covered by a service level agreement that promises to be 99.9% operational in any calendar month.

More than 113 million people use Google mail worldwide, according to comScore.

In a statement, Google said "a number of users" were having problems with Google Mail.

"We know how important GMail is to our users so we take this very seriously," it added.

Google directed people to its mail support page for further status updates.

Some users reported that Google Mail was working on G1 mobile phones, which are powered by Google's Android operating system.