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Gmail's upgrade activity results in global crash

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This came forward more than astonishment on the internet giant Google ’s part. Tuesday morning (Pacific Time), Google’s web mailing service – Gmail crashed for duration of around 100 minutes globally resulting in widespread panic among the people who rely on Gmail for all their personal and professional communications. At the same time it caused a great deal of confusion among the Google Engineers to figure out the cause of the outage. The affect: The crash affected around millions of trusted Gmail users who depend on the web interface and its Apps to do most of their professional tasks. The result: we saw people tweeting each other expressing their concern and anger. Users from some states of US, Italy, Germany, France and Taiwan reported being unable to access Gmail in the Google forum. Earlier outages Well, this isn’t the first time Google ’s Gmail has went offline. Earlier the mailing service has suffered outages in February and previously in April, August and October 2008.