
Yesterday night, an outage happened in many Google services and caused connection problem to many global users. For normal individuals, they usually think that the worst case is to wait for several hours. However it is not truth. Many online services or company official websites, either more or less, affected by the accident and demonstrated some problems on their websites. The reason behind this situation is that too many websites adopted at least one Google function in their service. For example, Many online forums and personal blogs use Google Ads to make some profit. And because of embedded Google Ads on their web page, the Internet users who visited their websites would probably face longer time or no response situation due to outage trouble. So the actual damage was hard to estimate and must be higher then that was announced in official report.
The most terrible things is, many crucial services or websites have deeply leverage with Google, which enlarges the potential risk if Google was breakdown. A website of a bank in United States which uses Google Analytic service to monitor network status was pulled down and had a time-consuming problem to display its web content when users try to access it last night, demonstrating that the powerful influence of Google has extended to many business applications as well.
Simply say: If Google sunk then nobody would survive.
What Google did is definitely a monopoly on Internet but nobody would like to object such development even the government of United States. Why? Perhaps US government think it is the best way to maintain the Internet advantage for United States.

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