If anybody else is having problems accessing Google, I found some IP addresses through Technorati that will let you at least search in the meantime… http://216.239.39.99/ and http://216.239.59.104/

I have been unable to access Google searches, Gmail, or any of my AdSense stuff for about 20 minutes now. Seems to be pretty widespread as some other blogs are reporting the same.

This is actually a great example of why Technorati is a pretty awesome tool. It lets you search blogs using keywords, and it’s almost up-to-the-minute information. So typing in “google” immediately brought up all kinds of other sites of people having trouble. I can imagine this being hugely useful in the event of something actually catastrophic happening - since the indexes of most search engines take at least a few days (sometimes weeks) to update.