Google is DOWN! Thousands of users reporting issues with searching and reading news articles

Google is down for thousands of users worldwide who report issues with Search and News. 

DownDetector, a site that monitors online outages, shows problems hit the tech giant at around 8AM ET.

The US, the UK, Australia, parts of Europe and many other countries are experiencing issues with the website and app.  

Google is down for thousands of users worldwide who report issues with Search and News

DownDetector's outage map shows New York, Boston and Los Angeles in the red.

Issue reports show 63 percent of users are having problems with the website, 33 percent cited Search and a small three percent say Maps is glitching. 

Users have flocked to X to share their frustrations of the outage and to see if others are having problems.

'Anybody else's Google down,' was a spot filling the social media site. 

One user shared a screen shot of their Google Search for 'british army,' with the website showing 'Your search - 'british army' - did not may any news results.' 

Others are being given a black screen when attempting to find articles in Google News. 

However, Google's service dashboards show no disruptions. 

One user shared a screen shot of their Google Search for 'british army,' with the website showing 'Your search - 'british army' - did not may any news results'

Others are being given a black screen when attempting to find articles in Google News. However, Google's service dashboards show no disruptions

DailyMail.com checked Google News and was alerted with: 'Uh-oh, something went wrong. Please try again' and 'There are no items to show.'

The tech giant revealed in 2021 that it had more than 4.9 billion active users, have of whom use Google Search.

It is unclear how many of those individuals have been hit by the current outage.

While Google rarely goes down, its services had issues just earlier this month.

On May 1, DownDetector showed issues appeared around 11am ET, plaguing Search, the website and Google Drive.

Users in the US, the UK, Australia, parts of Europe, South America and Asia reported problems with the tech giant's services.