In what could be a related issue, we've also been seeing repeated Google Chrome browser crashes this morning for users that are signed in. Searches for the Gmail outage and Chrome crashes on Twitter are returning hundreds of results. There may, in fact, be a bug with Chrome and Gmail together that is causing the crashes, possibly related to Chrome Sync.So far there is no official word from Google, clearing the air in regards to what might have caused the downtime on GMail.
Scattered reports of other Google products like Calendar, Google Drive in Chrome and Google Docs going down are also being seen.
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