Updated: #youtubefail: Search Goes Down on the Video Site

UPDATE 2: Looks like YouTube search is up and working again.

Updated with comment from YouTube: There appear to be some problems with search on YouTube as yet another Google-owned property experiences technical difficulties this week. We’ve tried search from multiple computers on different networks and have run into our queries taking a very. long. time. we’re. talking. really. long. time. to load. And even got the error message pasted below. Numerous tweets have popped up with the “#youtubefail” tag.

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Users have had headaches with Google search, Gmail and Blogger platforms over the past few days.

The rest of YouTube seemed to be working just fine, and this search issue could just be a hiccup. Videos we tried played without a hitch. We’ve contacted YouTube to see what’s up and will update as we learn more. But the Googleplex must all be thinking thank God it’s Friday after the week it’s had.

UPDATE: A YouTube spokesperson emailed us the following: “We’re aware some users are having trouble searching on YouTube. We’re looking into it, and we’ll update everyone soon.”

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