"Gmail not working"

In July last year, I was angered by an outage on gmail which stopped me getting access to my mail for many hours. Naturally, I blogged about it. For the past ten months, 'gmail not working' has been the number one way that people come to my site by googling. So much so that if you google, 'gmail not working' my post comes up number one.

This is a bitter-sweet thing on a number of levels. I'm actually very happy with my gmail account and I use it all the time. (obviously not everyone is because it continues to generate lots of unhappy comments). Second, this little consumer complaint of mine continues to inflate my traffic count. Not that it matters much I suppose, but it leaves me wondering whether one of the best ways of boosting traffic is to write lots of stuff about products, good and bad. Steve Rubel, for instance, ...

Comments

[someone]

gmail is so anonoying when i need it the most it dies on me!

[sachin]

Well I am new user to gmail, both my wife and I have not been able to access our accounts since yesterday- though the error message states, "Server Error
The server encountered a temporary error and could not complete your request.
Please try again in 30 seconds"
well its sure been a long 30 seconds!!

[sudeep p chhanchure]

Whether google people are sleeping.What sort of unsolvable problems they are facing?It's really bad and killing.

[harayz]

as u can see, im putting my gmail as my email because... it is my primary email (although this one is for other reason then personal). i just recently told my friends on how cool gmail is and have invited few people. and now? gmail died on me. and one more.. i am expecting a reply email from a new friend of mine about this weekend - if she is coming to see pau van dyk with me at the central park. i dont have her number and i really really really need to check the mail asap. freakin gmail died on me when i need it the most!! that shit always happen to me. freakin freaks.