Is Google down? Many users report 500 error code

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Thousands of users in the US are reporting outages on Google’s search engine, according to Downdetector. Nearly 40,000 such incidents have been reported by people with the world’s largest search engine, the online platform providing information on the status of various websites and services, noted. Other services owned by the Alphabet Inc. company, including Google maps and Google images also reportedly experienced problems. Users attempting to use the search engine during the outage were met with a 502 or 500 error with several users taking to Twitter to express their confusion.