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SAN FRANCISCO — Millions of people were cut off from Google Inc.’s search engine, e-mail and other online services Thursday for about an hour, sparking a flurry of frustrated venting that served as a reminder of society’s growing dependence on Google’s technology.
The Mountain View, Calif.-based company blamed a glitch that routed too much of its traffic through computers in Asia. Google’s problems rippled around the Web because other sites rely on its analytics service and draw much of their traffic from searches done through Google.
Many websites took longer to load and were more likely to fail during the disruption, according to Gomez Inc., which assists Internet firms. The Associated Press
