Google’s Gmail Service Suffers Disruption

 Gmail, Google’s popular Web-based email service, suffered a failure on Monday that left millions of people around the world cut of their messages.

Google confirmed that “service disruptions” had affected GMail and Google Drive, its online storage service.

Consumer and business visitors to Gmail.com were greeted by an error page.

Google’s apps status dashboard, which tracks the availability of its Web services, did not register the outage for half an hour.

Some users additionally reported that the outage had affected Google Docs, the company’s word-processing and spreadsheet programs, while Chrome, Google’s Internet browser, also crashed unexpectedly.

“We are currently experiencing an issue with some Google services,” Google spokeswoman Andrea Freund said in a statement. “For everyone who is affected, we apologize for any inconvenience you may be experiencing.”

Agencies