Hm, maybe it's just the SRE in me talking, but if major chunks of the internet being entirely inaccessible doesn't count as an "outage", what does?

I mean, I guess your entitled to look at it that way, but I don't think it's dishonest of them to distinguish between "nothing is working" and "some regions aren't working".

There is no problem from the Asia site (well, it was in the wee hour, but my monitor doesn't see any problem here from Singapore)