gmail and sites with adsense ads are back and running now, but even DP froze for 30 seconds and started without the ads in the forum, and top right. now they are all back, that was 5 minutes it was down and like that
no i was talking to a friend and sent her a link to my new site, and it froze where the adsense ads start, and she told me she cant scroll down, so i knew it froze the same for her, then i tried gmail, and it wouldnt load, then i came to DP and it froze at the top right ad and hung for 30 seconds, then loaded without the ads, 20 pages loaded without ads on DP. then i posted this thread
Could have been a problem with your local Google datacenter. I'm sure these things happen quite regularly around the globe in localised incidences. Who remembers when Google.com was down for a short while a couple of years back? http://www.engadget.com/2005/05/07/google-down-google-hacked-not-hacked/
It's possible that your ISP or some upstream provider had trouble communicating with the portion of their network that would provide access to Google's servers. In short, some segments of the Internet can become inaccessible at times, to some peope, while the affected services continue working for most people.