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Tadeusz Szewczyk [PersonRank 10]

Wednesday, October 10, 2007
16 years ago10,419 views

Hello,

I get a blank page saying
"Not Found
Error 404"
on http://docs.google.com/
What about you?

Tad

Art Nagy [PersonRank 1]

16 years ago #

Me too, in Hungary. No matter what I try, can't reach the Google Docs page...

Art Nagy [PersonRank 1]

16 years ago #

OK, it's here now. Strange.

Tadeusz Szewczyk [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Meanwhile I reached it but couldn't go on working as the data base connection did not work and no saving was possible.

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

I just got this error:

"The server encountered an error. Please try again later."

http://blogoscoped.com/files/google-docs-down.jpg

But now it's back...

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

It's time like these you feel good you made backups of your Google documents...

Ken Wong [PersonRank 5]

16 years ago #

Working fine here in China.

dpneal [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

though it's very unlikely that Google would actually lose your data.

Tadeusz Szewczyk [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Still it highlights the fact that you can't trust others with keeping your important documents. Here it was just a draft for a blog post of mine, but nonetheless...
Btw. this is the post:
http://seo2.0.onreact.com/20-ways-to-get-legit-paid-links-without-getting-penalized-by-google

Above 9 comments were made in the forum before this was blogged,

Ludwik Trammer [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

> though it's very unlikely that
> Google would actually lose your data.

There were several reports of Google losing people's gmail data in the past...

David Mulder [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Well, I have been using gDocs all day at school, no problems here...

Talkrabb [PersonRank 1]

16 years ago #

I had the same error messages a couple of days before.
It turned out that the errors came only up when I was connected over my FON Wlan. When I connected my computer direct to the ADSL router the problem disappeared.

DaveB [PersonRank 3]

16 years ago #

Seems to be a number of problems:

I am getting "Oops an error occured. Please try again in a few seconds." in Reader.

And "Unable to load user data. Please try again in a little while." in Notebook.

Josef Sábl [PersonRank 1]

16 years ago #

I saw 404 too.

Documents at Google Apps were working in read only mode at the same time: "We have problems. You can view the document, but cannot make changes too it." Something like that

Looks like App customers are getting special treatment. Or maybe just coincidence :-)

The whole breakage lasted for five minutes or so.

Proteus [PersonRank 0]

16 years ago #

I had troubles with iGoogle as well today.
Clicking on any tab only refreshed the main tab content, it was impossible to activate the other tabs.
Seems to be OK now.

GuillaumeB [PersonRank 9]

16 years ago #

got that in the google reader yesterday and orkut has a brief massage this morning

Niraj Sanghvi [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

>>It's time like these you feel good you made backups of your Google documents...

Or bad that they haven't gotten Google Gears integrated yet :)

Londinium [PersonRank 0]

16 years ago #

Mostly working (in UK), but last night it was failing to send emails to new collaborators (they still got added ok tho)

Jeremy Horn [PersonRank 1]

16 years ago #

Not even Google will be perfect; nor should they be expected to be. We, you, everyone, need(s) to be able to have better control of our data: share it, port it, and experience it.  We should not be locked into one mode of interaction, nor a single location for the storage for our data. 
 
And, as the next phase of the post-web 2.0 begins to evolve, more Modular Innovations will occur, that, I believe, can really empower us to control our own data and our own online experiences.
 
You can read more in my blog post at http://tpgblog.com/2007/10/10/worldwide-vacation-day-courtest-of-google/
 
Jeremy Horn
The Product Guy

Martin Porcheron [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

"We should not be locked into one mode of interaction, nor a single location for the storage for our data. "

But if Google wants companies to switch to Google Apps then they will have to provide a near perfect solution that will ultimately be stored in one location (granted Google has backups).

Jeremy Horn [PersonRank 1]

16 years ago #

Listed the wrong link earlier, here it is, corrected:
http://tpgblog.com/2007/10/10/worldwide-vacation-day-courtest-of-google/

Enjoy!

Jeremy Horn
The Product Guy

David Hetfield [PersonRank 10]

16 years ago #

Well, Google Docs works for me. But it takes several minutes to load.

:/

Maybe some regular maintenance like Orkut , AdSense and AdWords gets every month?

(Just guessing..)

Chad Bam [PersonRank 0]

16 years ago #

Check-out my post on

http://www.gagagooogle.com

It's worth the read if you are interesting in Google's strategy.

Thanks, Chad.

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