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b'This is The Internet Report, where we uncover what\\u2019s working and what\\u2019s breaking on the Internet\\u2014and why. This week, we go under the hood on a recent outage that took down the availability of several Google applications, including YouTube, Gmail and Google Calendar. Yesterday morning at around 6:50 AM EST, users around the world were unable to access several Google services for a span of approximately 40 minutes. While short-lived, the outage was notable in that it occurred during business hours in Europe and toward the beginning of the school day on the US east coast\\u2014so, people noticed, to put it bluntly. Catch this week\\u2019s episode to hear about the official RCA and what we saw from a network perspective. Also, we\\u2019re thrilled to be joined by David Belson of Fastly to talk about Internet traffic trends related to holiday online shopping and charitable giving. Tune in now to hear more about it.'