Google has apologised for a software update issue that caused a major international outage, on Tuesday.
A spokesperson for the company said the team addressed the fault and services were back running as normal.
“We’re aware of a software update issue that occurred late this afternoon Pacific Time and briefly affected availability of Google search and Maps,” they said.
“We apologise for the inconvenience. We worked to quickly address the issue and our services are now back online.”
Users said sister platforms Gmail, Google maps and Google images were also experiencing problems. Both rely on Google’s search engine to operate.
The outage was quickly reported by technology platforms.
