Google: Email disruption to be completely resolved by the weekend
Following the outage of Google's email service, the company is working to fully restore all of its users' accounts. According to the U.S. internet company, the accounts of all users whose emails temporarily disappeared from their folders are expected to be fully restored over the course of the coming weekend.
The good news is that emails were not lost at any point, Google's vice president of engineering Ben Treynor said in a blog post on Monday. Things should be back to normal for everyone soon. The fix is taking longer than originally expected, but is progressing. A programming error in a software update related to e-mail storage is to blame, Treynor writes. As a result, an estimated 150,000 Google users worldwide lost their emails. According to estimates, a total of around 200 million people use the US company's free e-mail service.
