Back in March, Google was really proud of its company after the Internet publications reported the search giant was offline only for 7 minutes since January 1. Although the numbers are quite amazing, it seems like the Mountain View-based company wants to increase the downtime because more and more Google products are unavailable for a limited period of time, causing problems for all the users. This time, Google Groups is the product that caused headaches to the visitors because it was unavailable since this morning. According to Blogger News Network, it all started at about 6am when the service was totally messed up without an official reason of the downtime.

"At about 6am this morning Google started to experience problems with it's popular Groups service, my research leads me to believe that whatever the problem was resulted in a complete failure of the service around noon. It is now 6pm and the service is still messed up, there is only partial functionality, and a great deal of user data is missing," the same source reported.

At this time, the service is still buggy because most of the messages and the pictures displayed by Google Groups are quite messed up. Now, I believe Google is working on it but let's have a closer look at what Google Groups means for the Internet users.

Recently, the search giant introduced a new Korean forum that is actually a Google Groups discussion especially designed to talk about the company's advertising platforms. Let's suppose an important Korean publisher encounters several problems with the advertising platform and decides to ask a question on the Google Groups discussion. Because the service is unavailable, his ads remain offline and his company loses an important amount of money...