What would happen if Google were to shut down for 30 minutes?

We all depend on Google, we started our day on Computer from opening Google.com. Did you know What happened If Google were shut down for 30 minutes ?

In August 2013, Google and all of its services came down briefly for 2-3 mins. And the whole internet traffic went down by a massive 40%.

Note that it was just for 2 mins. Imagine 30 mins. It’s highly unlikely but here is what I think will happen –

1. First few mins people will check their internet connection. Some will even call their Service Provider. Some may even check for hardware failures on their side – which is still more likely than 30 min outage

2. People will then realise that it’s true. There will be a period of disbelief. People will desperately try to reload google’s homepage.

3. People all around the world will start taking screenshots of the Google Server Error Page. [Likely 500]

4. Your Facebook Newsfeed will be full of “OMG Can’t believe”, “I witnessed something astonishing” along with several images from previous point.

5. People will search for alternate search engine ~ but how ? Most of them don’t even know that there are alternate search engines

6. Bing and Yahoo will get huge traffic surge.

7. DuckDuckGo( Page on duckduckgo.com ) will start trending on Twitter. People will realise it’s good. (That’s a search engine that doesn’t track you BTW)

8. Many other internet apps – that uses Google Services in backend will also come down. Without GMAIL for 30 mins the productivity across the whole world will drop by a huge margin.

9. I can’t even imagine the Revenue Loss – not just for Google but for all the companies throughout the world that uses Google.

10. Android users will be stranded on the roads and iPhone users will be lost in the lanes if Google Maps stopped working for 30mins **