Following an outage that affected thousands of users across the globe search engine giant Google is back up, according to Downdetector. 

At the peak of the outage, over 30,000 reports came in from Google users in the United States alone. In Japan, nearly 9,500 users reported outages, so did users in Canada and Australia. 

When the disruption occurred, Internet dwellers took to social media to make memes about what to do after the world’s most popular search engine stopped working. 

Outages while rare, are almost unheard of from Google’s signature product which has become well-known for its reliability and . Website failures usually come from back-end web infrastructure from services like Amazon Web Services or Cloudflare. 

In a separate incident in Iowa, an electrical fire at a data center in Council Bluffs left three Google electricians severely injured, according to a report from SFGATE. 

While one person was airlifted by medical helicopter to the Nebraska Medical Center the other two were transported by ambulance. The three were conscious and breathing while being transported according to the Council Bluffs police. 

A Google spokesperson told SFGATE the company was aware of the arc flash (electric explosion) that occured at its Council Bluffs data center. The company said that the health of all of its workers was their “absolute top priority” and that they will be “investigating the situation”.

Alphabet’s most prized unit has 23 large data centers across the world with most of them being located in US. The Council Bluffs location happens to be one of Google’s largest data centers in the world.

In June this year, Cloudflare went down for over an hour affecting Internet traffic at 19 of its data centers. 

nfortunately for them, those centres were also hubs of global Internet traffic and handled a significant chunk of information flow. Surprisingly, the centres only comprise 4% of their total network but their downtime affected 50% of requests,