Google services global outage: Company blames ‘internal storage quota issue’ All Google services faced an outage today. Users complained that they were unable to access Gmail, YouTube and Docs, though the services are back now for all. Updated: December 14, 2020 9:11:51 pm All allege that Google abused its dominance of the internet search business or otherwise broke antitrust law (Bloomberg File Photo) Google’s services, including Gmail, YouTube, Google Docs and others, faced a global outage earlier today. The company blamed an ‘internal storage quota issue’ for the same. The outage lasted almost 45 minutes across all Google services with users unable to login. Most of the services are now back online. Users faced problems with all Google services, and were unable to access Gmail, YouTube and Google Docs during the global outage.