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Google's Y2K7 Problem 
By: Nathan Weinberg 2007-01-02 Two Google services have broken in the new year, most likely due to code that failed when the clock struck 2007. The services include GMail storage counter and Google Calculator. Ionut Alex notes that the Gmail storage counter, which usually adds a third of a megabyte of storage to your inbox every day, stopped incrementing at midnight this morning. Gmail remains frozen at 2800 gigabytes of storage, which is plenty, and a reasonable enough number that it may even be by design. I'm guessing Google will either fix it and say nothing, or freeze the counter and declare 2.8 GB to be the new Gmail storage limit (so much for Infinity + 1). Also, Google's calculator is broken. That is unequivocally accurate. I can't find a single search that normally used the calculator that now works. Try 1+1, 2+2, 4 * 2 or 15/3. I can imagine there would be computer systems that would fail on a certain date, including the first of 2007. I just figured it would mostly be code written twenty years ago, not 18 months ago. UPDATE: Calculator is back working again, at around 10:40 pm. It was basically down since midnight, but considering nobody was likely working New Year's Day, I'd call that decently fast. Comment Tag: Google Add to  Del.icio.us |  Digg |  Reddit |  Furl
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