Google Down: The Perils of Centralization
Dec 14, 2020 at 9:56 p.m. UTCUpdated Dec 14, 2020 at 10:18 p.m. UTC(itsarasak thithuekthak/iStock/Getty Images Plus)Google Down: The Perils of CentralizationGoogle was down for only an hour, but Monday’s outage served as a jarring reminder of how much modern existence online depends on the centralized search engine colossus.From Gmail and Google Calendar to YouTube…