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title: Google is down
date: "2002-09-29T12:00:00Z"
categories:
  - links
wp_id: 1129
description: I couldn't access Google and found myself redirected to the Three Rivers Internet website instead. It appears to be a major DNS or routing error affecting the search engine's domain during this September 2002 outage.
keywords: [google outage, dns error, three rivers internet, domain routing, internet history, '2002']
---

Today, [I couldn't access Google](http://www.google.com). When I tried, I got this site instead.

[![www.Google.com leads to Three Rivers Internet site instead](/blog/assets/flickr-wwwgooglecom-leads-to-three-rivers-internet-site-instead_24685604_o-jpg.webp)](/blog/assets/flickr-wwwgooglecom-leads-to-three-rivers-internet-site-instead_24685604_o-jpg.webp)