Google suffered a worldwide blackout on Monday, December 14, 2020, which impacted many services from about 1 p.m., French time, outside the famous search engine of the U.S. firm, which was still working. Some services could be put back in place, in degraded mode, half an hour later, such as Gmail which is accessible again since 1:30 pm according to our observations. When the service was resumed, Google first indicated that the messaging system was "not able to access" the contacts. "You may encounter problems," warned the American giant. This message is no longer displayed in mailboxes ---- File - A man walks past the logo of the US multinational technology company Google during the VivaTech trade fair ( Viva Technology), on May 24, 2018 in Paris. Photo By ELIOT BLONDET/ABACAPRESS.COM