YouTube disappears from the web

[Turborama]

Source: Web User

YouTube appears to have disappeared from the web in the same week as Google stopped censoring its Chinese search service and suffered a bug that changed a corporate information page into different languages.

Many pages on the site bear the message "Http/1.1 Service Unavailable" and embedded videos on other sites hosted on YouTube cannot be played, instead saying: "An error occured, please try again later".

Other error messages include: "Internal Server Error. The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request."

The outage comes the day after a page on the Google site that contains information about the company's top executive appeared in Chinese and Russian languages instead of displaying information in English, a problem which Google later blamed on a bug.

Read more: http://www.webuser.co.uk/news/top-stories/448100/youtube-disappears-from-the-web

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If you go to www.youtube.com all that comes up is a blank page with "Http/1.1 Service Unavailable" at the top left corner in small font.

Twitter is getting swamped with messges about it:

http://www.google.com/search?q=youtube+Http/1.1+Service+Unavailable&num=50&hl=en&safe=off&rls=com.microsoft:en-US&tbs=rltm:1&tbo=u&ei=tkSrS6bsFYeosgPwsaGLDA&sa=X&oi=realtime_result_group_more_results_link&ct=title&resnum=4&ved=0CBsQ5QUwAw

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=youtube+down

So is Facebook (login is needed to see the feed): http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/search/?flt=1&q=youtube&gl=1&lo=en_US&sid=516097462.4034435380..1

[azurnoir]

1. true enough if you click on the main youtube link

you get the message described BUT if you enter a specific video in the youtube search box in the same link it works just fine

[Turborama]

2. What search box?

I only get a white page at that link, with the message I mentioned above.

[elocs]

3. Yep, I've found that specific videos have played just fine for me. n/t

[dairydog91]

4. Try going straight to a video, instead of to a main page.

I got straight to a page. Try http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOU8GIRUd_g and search from there.

[annabanana]

6. So the archives are still available, if you know exactly where to look..

Odd

[Christa]

7. I got server error when I clicked on your link. nt

[dairydog91]

10. Hmmm.

I got a working page, and I could search for videos and everything. It appears that you can't login to your account.

[SkyDaddy7]

9. LOL! Good One!!!

You got me!

[Mari333]

12. you bastard! hahahahahahahaahahahahahaa

[Webster Green]

13. Great choice!

Can't believe I wound up there again. :rofl:

[The_Commonist]

5. Wow... that's weird!

[annabanana]

8. also OUR video forum isn't working . . .n/t

[Christa]

11. From the facebook link

Jamie Dilla: VIRUS SPREADING LIKE WILDFIRE ON FB. DO NOT ACCEPT ANYTHING FROM ANY OF YOUR FRIENDS THAT ASKS YOU TO WATCH A VIDEO ON YOUTUBE. SNOPES JUST CONFIRMED. IT IS A TROJAN WORM VIRUS. IT WILL STEAL INFO, INFEST YOUR SYSTEM AND SHUT IT DOWN. DO NOT OPEN THE LINK. PLEASE REPOST THIS IN YOUR STATUS.

[dairydog91]

14. Indeed. Be careful about anything on Facebook linking you to a Youtube video.

[annabanana]

15. DAMN!.. I got this virus.

ugh

[truthisfreedom]

16. And once again, DU Mac haters will say that Macs aren't the answer.

But they are. 8^P

[NeoGreen]

23. My Linux is working just fine... n/t

[dipsydoodle]

17. Working just fine here in the UK

:shrug:

[Botany]

18. Works fine for me on my Mac

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNMhPQoEbJE

[Odin2005]

19. Works fine for me.

:shrug:

[Jkid]

20. I can access YouTube normally.

[merh]

21. The videos seem to work

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

22. It's working here.

[HopeHoops]

24. Works fine in PA - Thu, 25 Mar 2010, 12:03