Google's Blogger.com and Blogspot.com down for 75 minutes

Amsterdam – August 22, 2007 – Uptrends.com ( www.uptrends.com ), the leading remote website and server monitoring company with worldwide checkpoints, today reported that Google’s popular service www.blogger.com and www.blogspot.com have experienced serious downtime for more than an hour. The website and thousands of blogs could not be reached by thousands of users and visitors. The downtime started today at 9.47 AM US Eastern Time. The problem was solved and the website and blogs could be reached at 11 AM US Eastern Time.

Uptrends.com is a leading provider of website and server monitoring services. Our goal is to increase the availability of websites and servers and to reduce costly downtime. With worldwide checkpoints we monitor every 5 minutes if a website is up. In case a website cannot be reached a second checkpoint will do a check if a website can be reached. If not, an alert will be send.

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