Google services including YouTube, Gmail and Google Docs were inaccessible to millions of users worldwide.
Downdetector, a website that tracks outages of major websites, reported a spike in complaints about Google crashing at 5pm in India. Gmail, Google Drive and YouTube were down too, according to the website.
Google Docs users are seeing a message reading “Google Docs encountered an error. Please try reloading this page, or coming back to it in a few minutes”. YouTube said: "Something went wrong".
Users accessing Gmail got this message: "We’re sorry, but your account is temporarily unavailable. We apologise for the inconvenience and