Unable To Access Google.com And Related Services?

no connection to google

Something weird happened to my Internet connection couple of weeks back; internet connection’s fine; MSN connected; but all of a sudden it just couldn’t get connected any Google related services (google.com, blogger, gmail, gtalk) [Check out the video]. It really looks like your IP’s banned by Google but in the end I realized it was some hiccup on the Internet Service Provider’s side.

Joanne found this forum thread and it seems like few others out there have similar problem.

xfezz2: All other web pages would load, except google. So my first thought was to run a full virus scan and check for spyware to make sure nothing was infected or hijacked. Both clean. Then I went to check my host file. That too is clean.

The Solution

Here’s what few users who encountered the problem has done and it helps regain connection to Google. Turn of your modem and router for like 10 seconds and reconnect.

It did not work for me, but it somehow recovered after 20 minutes. So if you are encountering the same problem, try the solution above or just relax for half an hour or so. The problem’s not with you.

Thanks Joanne.

Comments

Fahmishah January 23rd, 2008

that’s weird.before this I can access Google but cannot access other websites.
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lilian January 23rd, 2008

Yeah, I got that too. At first I freaked out that my Adsense a/c was banned. Hehehe. I tried on three PCs at home. I forgot how I eventually got it back though. Must have got it through neighbour’s line.
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Metal Freak May 16th, 2008

even I’m having the same problem
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rolando November 20th, 2008

I can’t access google, gmail, or my favorite time sinkhole: youtube. It sucks!
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russ March 13th, 2009

Been a couple days I can’t check google, gmail, anything. Not with any browser. I even saw once in FireFox in the status bar, the url that flashed wasn’t a google or google-analytics address. looked totally sketch. but i didn’t catch what it was.

Many other things have been going down hill on my computer as well, so it really does make me think its my computer. Other computers on the network work fine(both mac), although sometimes have trouble maintaining connection to the router, especially when the problem PC is on.
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JD March 15th, 2009

Me too.. the exact same thing: Gmail, Google.com and other Google services won’t work. Even youtube.com is sketchy (doesn’t show everything). In neither Safari, Firefox or Camino… and other webpages work fine (like this one)… I had to use yahoo search to get to this point – it is scary to think how dependent I have become on Google’s services.

Anyways – for me the only solution seems to be to do a full reinstall (F***).

I tried the following:
1) Resetting network settings
2) Disabling firewall
3) Disabling OpenDNS and reverting to my ISP’s DNS.
4) Different browsers (see above)
5) Pinging google.com : It cannot connect
6) Restarting the OS (I’m desperate)… did not work!

My iPod touch can access Google just fine… this sucks!

If someone finds a solution to this problem please let us know!

Kind regards
JD
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KJ May 11th, 2009

I’m facing the same problem. I think it started when my VPN connection was closed improperly once. That’s the only thing I can recollect.

Since then, I can access http://www.google.co.uk, and other country specific google sites. But I can’t access anything where access will be verified via google accounts page (gmail, orkut, yourube, blogger etc.).

When I connect to my office VPN, and try to access google via my office proxy, it again starts working. But not from my home network anymore.

My other laptop & my p990i can access google fine from the same wireless modem and home network.

Haven’t found any solution yet, but still looking. This is really really strange, and it definitely sucks. I think this might be a bug at google’s end, as it seems to be having trouble dealing with IP address of my laptop properly.

Regards,

KJ
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Sheldon June 23rd, 2009

I’ve been having the same problem over the last week. I can’t access Gmail, Blogger or Youtube – 3 of my favourite and most useful websites :( I don’t know what to do!
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Jimmy September 3rd, 2009

Thanks. This tip saved me!
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hero October 20th, 2009

Its vundo virus/trojan. find the remover / antispyware.
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