Google Traffic & Disruptions
Government-ordered internet shutdowns, blocks and outages that disrupted Google products — a historical catalogue Google tracked from 2009 to 2021.
A catalogue of disruptions to the availability of Google's products — government-ordered internet shutdowns, network blocks and outages — each with the news-source citation that documented it. Google froze this dataset in 2021. Served by the public, read-only GET /api/traffic-disruptions.
What the columns mean
Product — the Google product whose traffic was disrupted (Web Search, YouTube, Gmail, …). Start / End — the approximate dates the disruption began and ended (Pacific time; some rows carry only an end date).
Source — the news outlet Google cited as corroboration; Report links to that article. Chart links back to Google's interactive traffic view for the event.
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