Meanwhile, a lot of Google Home early adopters are probably doing a big rethink right about now. I’m sitting here in the dark in my toddler’s room because the light is controlled by @Google Home. Rethinking… a lot right now. Because of the outage, some schools decided to cancel online school for the day. We look forward to the inevitable flood of thinkpieces. * * * Google was hit with a massive outage early Monday morning in New York as Gmail, Google Cloud, Google Classroom and pretty much all of the company’s other cloud-based services went down, snarling business and education across the country.