If downtime shorter or longer sites are increasing recently (Pal, Twitter, The Pirate Bay, etc.. See our news on), a company seems particularly affected Google. The Web giant, besides his famous bug of late January, has indeed many problems with Gmail, its messaging service. Indeed, the service had already suffered last February for a few hours. Google had then promised that he would "change" to solve the problem. But last May, also known Gmail access problems for nearly an hour. More recently, on September 1, specifically, Gmail was again unavailable, for a hundred minutes this time. Google was then given some explanations: "We have taken down a small part of the Gmail servers to perform an update routine. This is not in itself a problem - we do all the time, and the Gmail web interface is operating in multiple locations and simply sends the traffic to other locations when one of them is offline . However, as we now know, we just underestimated the burden of some recent changes (Ironically, some have been designed to improve service availability) on the routers involved. " And Google's promise that he will do for such an event never happens again. Yet less than four weeks later, some of you have necessarily noticed new problems accessing your Gmail accounts in the afternoon. Affecting only some users from Google, these concerns have lasted one to several hours depending on the services (mail, chat, etc..). If the Gmail blog has yet issued any note on the subject, Apps Status Dashboard, which regularly publishes data on the resilience (or not) of its various services (Gmail, Google Talk, Google Docs, etc..), however, provided few details. But nothing really concrete yet on the causes of these problems. "We apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience and your continued support" was content to publish Google, after announcing the resolution of the problem ... Anyway, this is the second outage of Gmail in the same month, and the fourth this year. Increasingly used to point to surpass Microsoft Hotmail in two years in view of its growth, Gmail has tens of millions of users. These access problems have therefore repeated interest to disappear quickly. Otherwise, its rival Yahoo, a large number of the sector could take the opportunity to sit a little place of the king of Internet messaging.