When Google Goes Down

3 Oct 2009

This morning Google Analytics wasn't responding. So many sites use it that it basically slowed down the entire Internet.

Posted by Cash Costello on Saturday, October 3, 2009 at 10:58 AM | 0 TrackBacks

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