Google down: Thousands of users on Monday took to micro-blogging site Twitter to inform that the US-tech giant Google is down and the Google's search engine is not working. There were more than 40,000 incidents of people reporting issues with the world`s largest search engine.

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According to outage tracking website Down detector, "there were more than 40,000 incidents of people reporting issues with the world`s largest search engine. According to Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from a number of sources including user-submitted errors on its platform. Google did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.

It is showing 502 error. The server encountered a temporary error and could not complete your request. Please try again in 30 seconds. That’s all we know,” the message prompt said

Earlier, in July, housands of users of  Instagram on Thursday reported issues with the photo-sharing application. Nearly 24,000 users of Instagram were impacted by 5 pm ET, according to outage-tracking website Downdetector, which collates status reports from a number of sources in the United States.

"We're aware that some people are having trouble accessing Instagram. We're working to get things back to normal and apologize for any inconvenience," a Meta spokesperson said in an emailed statement to Reuters