Google says internal storage quota issue is to blame for outage on Monday

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The authentication system outage lasted for about 45 minutes and took out Google services across the world

Google on Monday suffered a worldwide outage, disrupting the company's online services, including Gmail, YouTube, Google Docs and Google Maps. The company has now revealed the reason for this ou...

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