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Why Gmail, Youtube and other services suffered 45-minute outage?

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A global outage knocked out major services of Goolge, including Gmail and YouTube and on Friday Google said that it happened due to a mistake with its system for identifying people online. Google has many tools which allows the tech giant to verify and track logged-in users. According to a post by Google, the company started moving those tools to a new file storage system and during this the system misreported portions of the data.