SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Google Inc said its online news site was experiencing service disruptions on Tuesday, in the second major outage to affect the company in a month.
The Internet search giant said in a statement it was working to fix the problem, which it said began at 12:30 p.m. Pacific Time on Tuesday. Google did not say how widespread the outage was, but noted that 'many users' were having difficulty accessing the site.
Google news hosted 16.4 million unique visitors in the United States in August, according to comScore. That would place it among the top 10 news Web sites in the United States, although comScore said it groups Google's news site as a search site, not a news site.
Yahoo Inc is the No. 1 news site in the United States, according to comScore.
Earlier this month, a majority of Google email users were unable to access its service for more than an hour. Google said the outage was due to some of its routers becoming overloaded during a routine upgrade of certain servers.
(Reporting by Alexei Oreskovic; Editing by Richard Chang) Keywords: GOOGLE/ (alexei.oreskovic@thomsonreuters.com; +1 415 677 2511; alexei.oreskovic.reuters.com@reuters.net) COPYRIGHT Copyright Thomson Reuters 2009. All rights reserved. The copying, republication or redistribution of Reuters News Content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Thomson Reuters.
The Internet search giant said in a statement it was working to fix the problem, which it said began at 12:30 p.m. Pacific Time on Tuesday. Google did not say how widespread the outage was, but noted that 'many users' were having difficulty accessing the site.
Google news hosted 16.4 million unique visitors in the United States in August, according to comScore. That would place it among the top 10 news Web sites in the United States, although comScore said it groups Google's news site as a search site, not a news site.
Yahoo Inc is the No. 1 news site in the United States, according to comScore.
Earlier this month, a majority of Google email users were unable to access its service for more than an hour. Google said the outage was due to some of its routers becoming overloaded during a routine upgrade of certain servers.
(Reporting by Alexei Oreskovic; Editing by Richard Chang) Keywords: GOOGLE/ (alexei.oreskovic@thomsonreuters.com; +1 415 677 2511; alexei.oreskovic.reuters.com@reuters.net) COPYRIGHT Copyright Thomson Reuters 2009. All rights reserved. The copying, republication or redistribution of Reuters News Content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Thomson Reuters.