Google Meet Outage News: Google Meet faced a major disruption in India on Wednesday, leaving thousands of users unable to join or host video calls. The video-conferencing platform appeared to suffer a widespread outage, forcing many people to cancel work meetings, online classes and interviews, IANS reported.
According to outage-tracking website Downdetector, around 1,760 users had reported problems by 1:55 pm. Of these, 63 per cent said the website itself wasn’t working, while 35 per cent flagged server issues. A small share, around 3 per cent, reported video-quality problems.
Many users trying to join meetings saw a “502, that’s an error” message on their screens.
Social media floods with complaints
Social media platform X quickly filled with posts as frustrated users asked whether the issue was widespread. People shared screenshots and wrote messages such as “Google Meet down for everyone?” and “Why is Google Meet down??”
Several users tagged @GoogleIndia seeking clarity, while some accounts like @metawire urged Google to fix the problem quickly since calls could not be joined.
“Itni mushkil se to interview mila tha, google meet hi down chala gaya,” one user said. Interestingly, a few users said that Google Meet was down for everyone in their organisation except them, adding to the confusion. Others reported that they could join meetings, but their teammates could not.
Jokes, concerns and comparisons to recent outages
The outage also triggered a wave of jokes and concern, with users asking why multiple major platforms were failing this month. One person wrote, “First Cloudflare, then AWS… now GCP wants a turn too,” while another commented that they were still “waiting for a GCP outage” given the pattern.
“Google meet is down. Meetings cancelled,” another user noted. “google meet is down. some body please check if the corporate world on fire,” another said.Google has not yet issued an official statement on the cause of the disruption. The incident comes just a week after several parts of the internet were hit by a massive outage linked to Cloudflare.
Cloudflare outage fresh in memory
Last week, Cloudflare suffered a huge global internet outage that disrupted millions of users worldwide. It was caused by an internal malfunction, not a cyberattack. The outage impacted platforms such as X, ChatGPT, Canva, Discord and several other websites and apps, leaving users and businesses unable to access services for several hours.
According to Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince, the problem began when Cloudflare updated permissions on a ClickHouse database cluster. Although the update was intended to improve access to data across the network, a defective query pulled in far more information than the system could handle. This caused a key “feature file” used by Cloudflare’s Bot Management system to grow far beyond its design limit, triggering turbulence across the network.
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