As of around 12:53 PM PST, Gmail was (and still is) down.
On their status page it said:
Google Apps Status
September 1, 2009 12:53:00 PM PDT
We’re aware of a problem with Google Mail affecting a majority of users. The affected users are unable to access Google Mail. We will provide an update by September 1, 2009 1:53:00 PM PDT detailing when we expect to resolve the problem. Please note that this resolution time is an estimate and may change.
Having nervous ticks due to Google’s Gmail service being down? Read on… [continue reading…]





