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Google announces that it is building the world's longest undersea cable that will run from the east coast of the United States to Las Toninas, Argentina, with additional connections in Praia Grande, Brazil, and Punta del Este, Uruguay. The cable will ensure fast, low-latency access to Google products, such as Search, Gmail and YouTube, as well as Google Cloud services.
2021-06-12

Several Google services go down without warning around 11:50 UTC, including YouTube, Google Search, and the Google Play Store. The chatting app Discord and mobile video game "Pokémon Go" also go down. The cause was revealed to be an “authentication system outage” by the Google Cloud Twitter account.
2020-12-14

Google has a cloud services outage that affects Gmail, Snapchat, YouTube and other services in parts of the United States.
2019-06-2

Google pulls Android update support for Huawei phones, as well as the Google Play Store and Gmail apps, after the Chinese technology company was blacklisted by the United States Commerce Department.
2019-05-19

Google reports that they will not renew a contract with the U.S. military to develop machine learning algorithms for drones.
2018-06-2

Internet analytics company ComScore says Google's Gmail has edged out Microsoft's Hotmail as the world's top e-mail service.
2012-11-1

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China rejects accusations by Google that it is blocking access to Gmail in China.
2011-03-22

China denies it is disrupting access to Google's email service in the country.
2011-03-22

Google says that its Street View cars collected more information than it previously admitted including e-mails, passwords and URLs and that it would change its privacy practices.
2010-10-22

Google and the Israel Antiquities Authority announce plans to publish the Dead Sea Scrolls online.
2010-10-19