Google outage hits hard—even dashboards stayed quiet

A sweeping outage quietly knocked out access to key Google services—Search, Docs, Gmail, and even Gemini—without so much as a dashboard warning. Cloud-dependent apps like Zoom and Pokémon Go also staggered. Strangely, Google’s official status pages showed no signs of trouble. As users scrambled, the silence from Google’s systems added a layer of confusion to an already disruptive day across the web.