Many of Google’s services went down on the morning of Thursday, September 4, affecting Greece among other countries

Google Search, Gmail, YouTube, and several other services were temporarily disrupted today in the Balkans and Eastern Europe. Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Albania, Serbia, and Croatia were among the countries impacted. Some locations in Ukraine, Russia, and Western Europe were also affected.

The Association for Freedom of Expression, which monitors internet censorship in Turkey, reported that the Google outage — the company belongs to Alphabet — began around 10:00 a.m. Greek time.

Monitoring site Downdetector announced that services were largely restored before 12:00, with reports of outages dropping after 10:51 a.m.

Reuters also reported, citing users in the affected regions, that there were problems accessing websites, YouTube, and some phone contacts linked to Gmail.

In Germany, outage-monitoring website allestoerungen.de — a branch of US-based Ookla — reported a rise in Google outages starting around 09:00 local time (10:00 Greek time).