some Google users on Monday said they were unable to conduct searches using the company's Chrome browser and experience trouble sending emails through the gal app the problem only affected users in the UK and has since been resolved Google said dot the number of users reporting issues with Google services jump Monday morning according to down detector a website that tracks website statuses down detector said it only reports an incident when the number of reports is significantly higher than usual for a given time period period a Google Cloud spokesperson said it provided a dashboard update with information about the status of Google cloud services Google acknowledged an incident affecting a variety of Google services including its Cloud systems and reported connectivity issues the incident began at 6:38 a.m. Pacific Time Monday and was resolved by 8:30 for a PT according to the company during the issue users connecting to gcp services from the UK region may have experienced elevated latency intermittent 500 error rates the company update stated thank you have a nice day