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YouTube is Down for Maintenance?
Youtube is down for maintenance? Seems pretty unlikely that the world’s largest video platform, encompassing 20% of the world’s total Internet traffic, would just “go down for maintenance” in the middle of a Saturday.
Is this the next in Google’s IT uptime issues?
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