Google’s web-based email service, Gmail, has crashed this morning, leaving millions of users from Britain to Australia unable to send and receive messagesThe email service went offline at around 10.25am GMT, and the outage appears to have affected users throughout the UK as well as across Europe, and even as far afield as Australia and India.
According to insiders, Co-CEO's Larry Page and Sergey Brin have recently clashed over whether to keep Google's web-based email service free. One insider has even mentioned the possibility that they will dismantle the service completely as it did last year with Google Answers.
If Google decides to shutter it's free email service it will likely give users little to no warning. Many employees actually thought that today's outage was actually the official closing of the service. According to Google's disclaimer they are allowed to close the free service without warning and without recourse.
The last two paragraphs are absolutely false. But when I couldn't access my email today I was scared that something like this had happened. It was worse than the worse dream I have ever dreamed.
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