Update 04:39AM ET: It seems that both Google News and Google Discover are now back to fully functioning.

The company provided the following statement to Tom's Guide: "There was an issue that was temporarily affecting the results of Google News, Discover, and some other products. We fixed the problem and things should work fine now.

Original Story: Google News is experiencing an unexplained outage that is currently knocking the service offline for millions of users around the world.

As reported by DownDetector (and consistent with Tom's Guide's own experience), news aggregators are now experiencing outages on desktop pages and on iOS and Android apps. Some users claim that the search is also affected, but I couldn't replicate it myself.

Reports began to emerge today on the site suffering from the problem, at 5.31am ET/12.59pm BST, and Google has not yet made an official announcement on the cause of the problem.  

Users across the United States, including Ohio and Florida, have reported problems as members of the Toms Guide team across the UK, from London (where I am based) to Manchester, have also been affected. Other regions such as India, Canada and continental Europe have also reported problems.

Google Discover is also suffering, and seems to be simply resurfacing cached old content. There's no word on when this issue will be resolved, but given the scope of Google's news service, this outage has literally given millions of people now

Of course, many are taking to X to reaffirm that the service is really down, some of which have been thrown for good measure. With jokes.

This has not been a good week for Google. A few days ago, more than 2,500 pages of API documentation were posted online, revealing secrets about how Google's search algorithm works. Liz Reid, the company's head of search, also acknowledged in a blog post that Google's new AI overview feature has surfaced a rather dubious answer to a user's question, which has since gone viral on social media. 

"We stick to the same high standards as our users, so we expect, appreciate and take feedback seriously," she wrote.

Tom's Guide has contacted Google for a comment on the current Google News stop and we will update this article in case/when we receive a response.