Priyanka Tiwari
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Suspense crime, Digital Desk : If you tried to use Google to identify a plant with your camera, get your personalized news digest, or ask a question out loud today and were met with silence or an error, you were not alone. A major global outage struck some of Google's most popular AI-driven features, temporarily disrupting the digital lives of millions of users.
The widespread disruption primarily affected three key services: Google Lens, the powerful visual search tool; Google Discover, the curated feed of news and articles on many Android home screens; and Google Voice Search, the hands-free way to query the search engine.
Users worldwide took to social media and outage-tracking sites like Downdetector to report the issues. Reports flooded in describing a blank Discover feed, a Lens app that failed to recognize any objects, and a Voice Search that simply wouldn't respond. The issue appeared to be universal, affecting users across different devices and regions.
According to initial analyses, the problem was not in your phone or your internet connection. Instead, it was a "server-side" issue, meaning the problem originated within Google's own vast network of servers that power these complex services. While Google's traditional text-based search continued to function normally for most, the outage served as a stark reminder of how deeply integrated these intelligent, convenience-focused features have become in our daily routines.
Google quickly acknowledged the service disruption and confirmed that its engineering teams were working urgently to implement a fix and restore full functionality. For now, users are left to rediscover the slightly older-fashioned method of typing their queries as they await the return of their all-seeing, all-hearing digital assistant.
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