The search engine giant Google (www.google.com) announced on May 9 that its engineers are investigating the cause of the problem that shut down the company's search engine for a brief period over the weekend. All of Google's websites were temporarily inaccessible during the outage. Some users trying to access the page were redirected to a search engine called SoGoSearch, suggesting that the problem may have been at the Domain Name System (DNS) server level.
Google’s spokesperson David Krane said that it was not a hacking or a security issue, that Google's global properties were unavailable for a short period of time, and that Google has remedied the problem and access to Google has been restored worldwide.
