A 3D-printed YouTube icon is seen in front of a displayed YouTube logo in this illustration taken October 25, 2017. — Reuters pic
DEC 14 — Many services from Alphabet Inc , including YouTube, Gmail and Google Drive, were down for thousands of users across the globe today. The company’s video platform did not load for users and had an error message: “Something went wrong...”. According to outage monitoring website DownDetector, more than 12,000 YouTube users were affected in various parts of the world, including the United States, Britain and India.