An outage may have affected millions of Google users who rely on the search engine for the latest news. Down Detector noted a spike in user complaints starting at around 7:59 a.m. ET on Friday related to the Google News feed, which links to the latest stories from publications around the world.
Google Discover, a personal feed available on smartphones, also appears to have been affected. Some users reported that Google News was back up about two hours after the outage was first reported but that Discover was still not working.
As of February, Google News had about 280 million worldwide. Google estimated in a 2022 blog post that users click from Google News and Google Search results to news sites more than 24 billion times per month.
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