Google's Gmail experienced an outage this morning, with some users reporting that the problem extended to the search giant's Chrome browser as well.
"We're investigating reports of an issue with Google Mail. We will provide more information shortly," Google wrote in a 12:30 p.m. Eastern note on its Google Apps status dashboard.
Google categorized the problem as a "service disruption" rather than a "service outage."
Gmail started experiencing problems around noon Eastern. At PCMag, Gmail failed to load, and then produced a 502 error page. "The server encountered a temporary error and could not complete your request," the error noted. "Please try again in 30 seconds. That's all we know."
In addition to its mail client, Google users were also reporting problems with Chrome. "Google Chrome repeatedly quitting unexpectedly on me all morning is why I have trust issues," tweeted @tyleroakley.
"Please stop crashing Chrome. I might have to start using Internet Explorer again in a minute," quipped The Verge's Tom Warren in a tweet that was quickly re-tweeted by a Microsoft spokesman.
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