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Google Down Briefly With Outages To Gmail, YouTube, Google Drive

BOSTON (CBS) - Google, Gmail, YouTube, Google Drive, Google Docs and Google Classroom were all down for about an hour Monday morning in a widespread outage affecting many of those who rely on the services for work and school.

According to DownDetector, the outages hit a peak around 6:30 a.m. on the east coast.  Service was restored around 8 a.m.

Google tweeted that the outage was due to "an internal storage quota issue."

"Please rest assured that system reliability is a top priority at Google, and we are making continuous improvements to make our systems better," Google said in a statement.

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