Google down: Here is why the search engine suffered global outage
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The season finale of 2020 saw a Google outage that disrupted access to applications including YouTube, Gmail and Google Drive Monday evening.
The global outage brought the world together, for the second time this year, as users speculated the reason behind the disruption.
As much as people would like to blame the disruption on the year 2020, the reason why Google suffered an outage was an internal storage quota issue .
In a statement, Google said it experienced an authentication system outage for approximately 45 minutes due to an internal storage quota issue.