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The world had a glimpse of what it would be like without Google when it had an outage yesterday.
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SUBSCRIBEFor a short while yesterday, the world that relies on internet connectivity and reliability had a glimpse of what a world without Google, today’s cornerstone of commerce, education, social interaction, and, especially this week, Christmas shopping, might be like.Â
There was a major but thankfully brief outage that took the firm’s key apps, including YouTube and Gmail, offline.
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