I just checked, google.com, google news, google trends, gmail, youtube... looks like all of google's services are down. So even the Big G can have downtimes...
just did a quick twitter search and looks like am not the only one at my end, no google related services is opening, not even youtube which is not on the google.com domain...
The site is up for me. There is probably some disruption to a bank of routers or switches or something.
It wasn't down at all, it was google's dns servers in your area going down. They sometimes do for updates or for network maintenance.