What if Google stops working, what will happens?

Usually this can't happen, but if Google stops working, it will look like it's the end of the world.

However it has already happened in January 2014 and has had a major impact on the Gmail email platform.

On Google's blog, the authors explained that the malfunction was due to the “overload” of one of dozens of Google data centers in Europe, which had a cascading effect and the problem spread from one data center to another.

This is not the first time; Google has experienced some obstacles in the past.

In August 2013, all services were affected and completely down, including YouTube, Analytics, Drive.

This breakdown, which lasted no more than 5 minutes, from 03:50 pm to 03:55 pm PST, was enough to unleash the anger of millions of users. Global online traffic decreased by 40% and the company lost more than half a million dollars. According to the search engine Danny Sullivan.

What if the pause continues forever?

"In the first few minutes, users will check their internet connection, some will call their service provider, others will try to check for hardware malfunctions, before they make sure it's much bigger," said Ashish Kedia.

“When they make sure that what happened is true, the disbelief continues for some time with desperate attempts to reload the page over and over again.”

The next moments of disbelief and stupor will carry a lot of anger, he says. "A lot of users will start taking screenshots of the broken Google page, before millions of Facebook profiles are full."

“Angry users will be looking for alternative search engines, but how? The majority do not know alternative search engines except Yahoo and Bing, who are not as efficient as Google. ”

This problem will not only affect the search engine; apps using Google will also crash, and within half an hour worldwide productivity will be significantly affected.

“I can't imagine the scale of the losses for Google and for the companies that depend on them,” he says.

Let us not forget that this company not only serves the Internet, but also millions of mobile phones. “For Android and iPhone users who drive on Google Maps, those will lose their way,” says Kedia.

"But there are exceptions, during this catastrophic failure, life in China will not be affected, and the employees of rival companies will enjoy and sing happily," he says.

What will happen after the return of the service?

“The company will issue a statement trying to explain what happened and the technical reasons for service outages around the world,” added Kedia.

“Many bloggers will write questions like 'how do we rely on Google like this?’ Quora will be filled with questions like 'Why did this happen?' (Is it true that Google was hacked by hackers?), Etc. Many users will abandon the search engine and look for alternatives. ”

“Sites like BuzzFeed and ScoopWhoop will also publish quality articles (Google has fallen for 30 minutes and we don't know what's going on right now) and 10 things you can do when Google falls next time,” he added. In the end they will find this article and realize that this has happened before and could happen again. ”