The homepage sometimes works.

The search results page sometimes works.

The search result links, however, seem to be 90% broken, for example this is always broken:

http://www.google.pl/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=...

Edit: looks like that 5 minutes of fun is now over, and all is back to normal.

I'd love to know how much that little outage cost Google.

More importantly, I wonder how much that outage cost everyone.

I've seen many computer users simply "give up using the Internet" when Google is down, returning after a coffee break to resume.

It wouldn't surprise me if Wikipedia, at least, had a measurable traffic drop during the outage. I think they even have public MRTG logs, so someone more enterprising than me could confirm that... :-)

Some alternatives if you really need to search:

https://duckduckgo.com/

http://www.bing.com

Edit: I thought duckduckgo used search results from Google but without personalisation and tracking, removed my comment as this seems to be incorrect

Duckduckgo is most definitely not google, though you can access the anonymized google interface startpage.com by using the duckduckgo s! bang (for anyone unfamiliar with ddg, the bangs are a productivity heaven). If google is down, so will be startpage.com.

Amusing that you call Duckduckgo 'Google', when DuckDuckGo doesn't use results from Google.

https://duck.co/help/results/sources

Google Apps seems to be working everywhere, so that can't be it:

Here is the status board of GAPPS: http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=nl&v=status

I do not seem to have any kind or problems... But ... duckduckgo is a really great service!

Seems to have been some sort of europe wide hiccup then.

Appears to be working again now.

Working fine in London. Didn't get any errors in past 15 minutes.

Aaaand its back up. Looking forward to the post-mortem.

google.co.uk is throwing 500 errors.

https://www.google.co.uk/#q=test

Does work every now and then

Haven't got it to work though

it was down in parts of the UK for about 50% of people too

g search is occasionally failing with HTTP 500, in CZ

someone typed google into google :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqxLmLUT-qc

Yes Google.be is down. Lucky Google.com does work

same in uk

nevermind, back in < 1 minute from me noticing

Hah, takes far longer than that to find somewhere in their support pages to report the 500..

Did that page detailing developer excuses include 'Google is down'?

Still occurring in the UK for me

Down for me in Belgium, correct.

Working again for me

.nl was down, working again.

Works fine in Montenegro...

Down in Denmark.

Same here in .nl

for me too

Germany as well

Down in .nl too

google.com.fj working fine in Fiji.

Lots of 500s

UK too

NL is down.