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The search engine company who has been slowly expanding their services has taken a big step backwards in their quest for world domination. At least, that is what some experts would say.

Google’s Docs and Spreadsheets disappeared today for close to an hour, proving that the world’s largest search engine is a long way from perfecting the art of online business applications.

Many businesses paid good money to look at this screen, which appeared - at least to people in Silicon Valley - from about 9am to 10am:

Link: Google evaporates Docs and Spreadsheets cloud

In my opinion, companies who pay Google for this service have nothing to complain about. This is the volatile nature of the internet. It will not always be “up”; downtime is always going to be expected. This is a great reason for companies to keep hard copies of their documents on a local server or computer. If the Google Documents version is offline or unavailable, then they can at least edit and work with a local copy.

I can see a company complaining if the service was down for an entire day or even a few hours. However, the service was down for about an hour today. One hour is a good chunk of time to someone who works an eight-hour day; but I am sure someone can find something else to do at work for an hour.

Google has responded saying that the issue has been resolved and that they take the problem very seriously. Nevertheless, I am still a huge fan of the services that Google is offering.

Comments Welcome,
Justin

Tags: application, Business, Computer, documentation, down time, Google, google docs, Internet, search, services, time

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