It’s driving me nuts.

It’s a sad day. I’m telling you, it’s the beginning of the Apocalypse!

…or maybe it’s just YOUR internet that has the flu…because those’ve all been fine for me all day

Not normally something we’d cover, but damn, is Google down? Is such a thing even possible? Anyone know what’s going on?

UPDATE: They’re back! Seriously, anyone have any idea what happened?

UPDATE 2: GigaOm has a screengrab of a site called SoGoSearch that Google.com was redirecting to for a little while there. Sounds like somebody got themselves hacked!

UPDATE 3: Ok, to be fair, no one knows for sure that Google got hacked, this story is still developing. But hacked or not, something pretty catastrophic must have happened for them to have a system-wide outage like that. Sounds like there may have been some sort of Denial of Service attack, whether that was combined with a redirect of some kind isn’t entirely clear. We’ll keep you posted.

UPDATE 4: Google is now saying it was a DNS issue. They haven’t said what the source of the issue was.